Watchman63
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There is a community well on my property serving 5 houses. I am responsible for maintenance, and right now we have no water.
We put a new well system in during the Spring of 2005. It's a Jacuzzi 1.5 HP pump with a Franklin Electric model 2823008110 controller with 3 pressure tanks.
I did all of the electronics myself, and the rest of the installation was a cooperative job between the 5 of us on the system. I am not sure that I ever had the pressure switch adjusted properly. Sometimes the switch would chatter when it started, and the contacts on one side now look pretty bad. I have had to go out and manually start the pump several times in the last few weeks.
Today for the first time, the reset button on the pump controller tripped. When I restarted it, there was a loud "pop" from the box. I took the cover off and watched the capacitor the next time that the pump came on, and sparks shot out of the bottom of the capacitor.
I would say that makes it a near certainty that I need a new pump controller, and I am also going to put on a new pressure switch.
What is currently happening is that the motor will not start, the controller hums for a second or two, and the reset button pops on the pump controller. I'm really hoping that the pump is not also fried. Is it possible that the pump is fine and it is just the controller that is shot?
So here are my questions:
Should I just replace the pressure switch and controller and see if that works, or should I just quit where I am and call professional help?
We put a new well system in during the Spring of 2005. It's a Jacuzzi 1.5 HP pump with a Franklin Electric model 2823008110 controller with 3 pressure tanks.
I did all of the electronics myself, and the rest of the installation was a cooperative job between the 5 of us on the system. I am not sure that I ever had the pressure switch adjusted properly. Sometimes the switch would chatter when it started, and the contacts on one side now look pretty bad. I have had to go out and manually start the pump several times in the last few weeks.
Today for the first time, the reset button on the pump controller tripped. When I restarted it, there was a loud "pop" from the box. I took the cover off and watched the capacitor the next time that the pump came on, and sparks shot out of the bottom of the capacitor.
I would say that makes it a near certainty that I need a new pump controller, and I am also going to put on a new pressure switch.
What is currently happening is that the motor will not start, the controller hums for a second or two, and the reset button pops on the pump controller. I'm really hoping that the pump is not also fried. Is it possible that the pump is fine and it is just the controller that is shot?
So here are my questions:
Should I just replace the pressure switch and controller and see if that works, or should I just quit where I am and call professional help?