Stumbled across this forum while researching well pumps and looks like there is a wealth of knowledge here. Hopefully I can get some sound advice. This is a new house with 4 washrooms, some hi flow showers and I will want to do some irrigation so I was hoping to maintain about 16 gpm.
Just had a new well drilled. It is 165' and well sits about 50' from where pressure tank will be located in the house. I don't know the static water level (well driller didn't provide this info - I'm guessing about 80' to 100') but he did say it is producing about 16 -18 gpm. Well driller is recommending a 22 gpm SQE pump with the CU301 controller. I found some info on the CSV and like the simplicity as opposed to all the electronics with the SQE setup. The house has a full basement where pressure tank is located and there will be a pitless installed in the well so they will approximately be at the same elevation. I roughly calculated the TDH to be 320' and I would like to maintain about 70 psi working pressure. I like the all stainless Grundfos SP pump and from what I can tell I would need a 16S20-18 which is 16 gpm and 2 hp. Just wondering how this would work with a CSV? Since I want to run a higher pressure should I up size the pressure tank to about 10 gallons to get a longer runtime for pump cooling? Will this setup still allow for a minimum 1gpm flow without pump cycling? What is the best type of pipe to run down the well to connect to the pump (steel, pvc)? Am I on the right track here or can someone chime in with some better advice.
Thanks
Just had a new well drilled. It is 165' and well sits about 50' from where pressure tank will be located in the house. I don't know the static water level (well driller didn't provide this info - I'm guessing about 80' to 100') but he did say it is producing about 16 -18 gpm. Well driller is recommending a 22 gpm SQE pump with the CU301 controller. I found some info on the CSV and like the simplicity as opposed to all the electronics with the SQE setup. The house has a full basement where pressure tank is located and there will be a pitless installed in the well so they will approximately be at the same elevation. I roughly calculated the TDH to be 320' and I would like to maintain about 70 psi working pressure. I like the all stainless Grundfos SP pump and from what I can tell I would need a 16S20-18 which is 16 gpm and 2 hp. Just wondering how this would work with a CSV? Since I want to run a higher pressure should I up size the pressure tank to about 10 gallons to get a longer runtime for pump cooling? Will this setup still allow for a minimum 1gpm flow without pump cycling? What is the best type of pipe to run down the well to connect to the pump (steel, pvc)? Am I on the right track here or can someone chime in with some better advice.
Thanks
