Hi All,
Sorry for the long message, but I want to give you a full picture of our situation as I'm trying really hard to understand all of this new stuff and stay in good graces with my family. Not always easy to do.
My wife and I bought our first house a few months ago and one of the things I wanted was a house with its own well. Careful what you wish for!
I got what I wanted, but the well was installed in the mid 80's and has some issues that comes with age that I'll need to address in the near future. Two months ago I replaced the secondary external pump and check valve.
The well is 300 feet deep with a 1/2 hp pump at 250 feet, pumps about 6 gpm, has a 1500 gallon holding tank, 80 gallon pressure tank, and the new Goulds 1/2 hp auxilary pump to get it up to the house. Well is located 30+ feet below the grade of the house and about 100 feet away.
There are two switch boxes and one junction box at the top of the well head. One switch box goes to a float at the top of the storage tank. Another float switch is at the mid tank level and goes to the main sub panel box five feet from the well head. The white wire from the lower float switch is wire nutted inside the sub panel to one of the leads going to the new secondary pump. The black goes to one lead on the breaker.
My problem is this: It seams that the white wire isn't getting power, so I had to jump a wire from the secondary pump to the breaker to get the secondary pump to work.
Water level is only at about 1/3 of the tank so the lower and upper float switches are just hanging there. Probably not good.
Do the submersible well pumps stay on until the float switch shuts it off, or can they cycle on and off based on settings at on of the switch boxes?
What a better way to wire the secondary pump? And shouldn't the lower float switch be going to the well head and not the subpanel? Is it normal to have two float switches?
So much to learn.
Thanks for any and all support.
Sorry for the long message, but I want to give you a full picture of our situation as I'm trying really hard to understand all of this new stuff and stay in good graces with my family. Not always easy to do.
My wife and I bought our first house a few months ago and one of the things I wanted was a house with its own well. Careful what you wish for!
I got what I wanted, but the well was installed in the mid 80's and has some issues that comes with age that I'll need to address in the near future. Two months ago I replaced the secondary external pump and check valve.
The well is 300 feet deep with a 1/2 hp pump at 250 feet, pumps about 6 gpm, has a 1500 gallon holding tank, 80 gallon pressure tank, and the new Goulds 1/2 hp auxilary pump to get it up to the house. Well is located 30+ feet below the grade of the house and about 100 feet away.
There are two switch boxes and one junction box at the top of the well head. One switch box goes to a float at the top of the storage tank. Another float switch is at the mid tank level and goes to the main sub panel box five feet from the well head. The white wire from the lower float switch is wire nutted inside the sub panel to one of the leads going to the new secondary pump. The black goes to one lead on the breaker.
My problem is this: It seams that the white wire isn't getting power, so I had to jump a wire from the secondary pump to the breaker to get the secondary pump to work.
Water level is only at about 1/3 of the tank so the lower and upper float switches are just hanging there. Probably not good.
Do the submersible well pumps stay on until the float switch shuts it off, or can they cycle on and off based on settings at on of the switch boxes?
What a better way to wire the secondary pump? And shouldn't the lower float switch be going to the well head and not the subpanel? Is it normal to have two float switches?
So much to learn.
Thanks for any and all support.