tomlindy
New Member
Moved into house a few years ago with the well line feeding a micronizer ahead of an HP-9 tank with an AVC, used as an aeration tank to get rid of an H2S smell, and then into a standard bladder-type pressure tank. Everything worked fine, until recently the micronizer stopped sucking in air (regardless of the setting). I suspected the AVC might have been malfunctioning since the tank seemed too full of water, so I drained everything and cleaned it up. I also was concerned the bladder tank might have been bad so I had it checked but it was fine, although the tank empty pressure was down to 20psi. They set the pump cut-in/out settings to 50/70psi, and the bladder pressure to 47.
When I restarted, and refilled the system, the micronizer sucked air for about 45 seconds of the roughly 5 minutes it took to refill the system, so it obviously isn't clogged, but after that during normal pump cycles it doesn't suck any air again, regardless of the micronizer setting. The WellMate tech support line couldn't agree on the cause - one said bad micronizer, another probably the AVC. But I'm also wondering if the pressure is just set too high. Anyone have experience with a situation like this?
When I restarted, and refilled the system, the micronizer sucked air for about 45 seconds of the roughly 5 minutes it took to refill the system, so it obviously isn't clogged, but after that during normal pump cycles it doesn't suck any air again, regardless of the micronizer setting. The WellMate tech support line couldn't agree on the cause - one said bad micronizer, another probably the AVC. But I'm also wondering if the pressure is just set too high. Anyone have experience with a situation like this?