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Engineering Knowledge from the Solanzo Team

Manufacturing stories, R&D breakthroughs, and practical engineering insight from 27+ years of Italian precision in water and solar pump technology.

Aug 25, 2004

Pump datasheets talk in metres, plumbers talk in bar. They are describing the same thing, and converting between them ta...

Feb 4, 2004

Maximum Power Point Tracking sounds exotic, but it is simply the reason a solar pump keeps pumping hard when the light i...

Jun 11, 2003

From panel to field: how photovoltaic pumping systems are put together, how to size them, and why the sun is the most re...

Apr 8, 2003

We have just finished our first photovoltaic pumping installations. What the technology can already do, and what still n...

Nov 20, 2002

Above-ground convenience or in-well efficiency? The honest trade-offs between self-priming jet pumps and submersibles, a...

Apr 9, 2002

Flow rate, total head and duty cycle: the three questions every correct pump selection starts with. A practical buyer's...

Oct 18, 2001

A quarter of an hour in autumn prevents the most common winter failure we see in the workshop every January.

Jun 20, 2000

The impeller decides how a pump performs. That is exactly why we never bought ours from a catalogue.

Mar 12, 1999

A new workshop in Turin, a small team, and one conviction: water pumps should be built to outlast the price on their inv...