Cacher_Chick
Test, Don't Guess!
The water line needs to be below the frost line.
The electrons flowing down the wire don't mind the cold at all.
The electrons flowing down the wire don't mind the cold at all.
If there is no neutral, what do you call the common wire?Is there a way of finding the common wire on a 70 foot underground run? My multimeter test lines are not that long.
Wire strand color is black, red, and green as the third wire is a ground from the bonded ground buss bar to the green terminals on the pressure switch. No neutral in the run as I am saving the sub-panel for latter.
I get the idea that the hots have no particular order along the root. Does it matter which hot is connected to the two breaker water pump pressure switch terminals?
I think if I was a kid and was digging and started finding toys, I would keep digging deeper, To see what other treasures I could find.
As kids we made the 10 foot snow drifts into Hideouts. Sometimes they collapsed when it warmed up.
Sounds like You made good progress.
With the control box face off (no connection to pressure switch), both the electrician and I had audio continuity readings indicating a short below. When I did resistance, meter was reading 11.5 to 15 ohms resistance in the three pump wires. The electrician thought the pump was shorted.
And speaking of getting water, I would have rolled out a piece of NM any flavor cable onthe ground and had the pump running in 10 minutes. Do the detail and dirt work later.
I have 160' of interior NM 14g cable laying on the ground for 9 years now, sending 9 volts thru it with a old cell pnone charger. The valve it actuates via a float is rated for 24 volts, but works fine on the 4 or 6 that make it back. So much for "thwm water resistant" cable!
Sounds like fun. I would have ran a 600 V extension cord, or had the generator connected to that bad boy. He must have a very pleasant wife. I Love it when a plan comes together, If it meets code or not...
we would dig tunnels underground in the old burned down vacant lots when I lived in Detroit when I was a kid. must have been 4 to 6 ft deep and at least as long. perfect hideaway.
This is awkward, but...
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