Not a plumber guys...So go easy on me....LOL...Paid the pump installer for the following fiasco.
Had my 4" Grundfos 16S15-14 2 wire replaced(12 yr old) with exact same model on 4/20/12....new SS couplers on 220' Silverline Drop pipe(1.25" x 20'x11)-no check valve except the one on the pump. Running Delat Lighting Arrestor off Schneider 40/60 with copper ground rod.
Running one of Valvemans Circa 2001 CSV's with an in ground Pressure tank.
When it was replaced last April..I noticed one of the 1.25" fittings dripping which caused the pump to cycle 3x an hour-called pump installer 4 times...Never showed.
Anywho....today my 40/60 switch was closed(allowing 240 V to the motor) and the PSI gauge showed zero...So I kicked the breaker off for an hour and this allowed the pump, for some unknown reason to reset and it filled the pressure tank and the Pressure switch turned the pump off at 60PSI.
I discharged the pressure tank and thinking the pump would kick on at 40- it did not.....Contacts closed on 40/60 but nothing from the p[ump. Nada. Anywho....have to repeat process of kicking breaker off...wait 10 minutes and turn on breaker.
So is the pump shot after 13 months and Valveman...since I have to have the above ground PVC replumbed after your massive CSV...can I just replace it with one of your awesome thermoplastic variable 50 or 60 psi model CSV12550 or CSV12560?
Hard to believe I need a 1.5HP pump for a 220ft well....The grundfos is running me about 650 to 700..thinking of running a Schaefer with a Franklin motor instead.
So...perhaps the cycling 75 times a day times 400 days(due to the drip leak i8n the plumbing )played a role in the pumps demise?
Thanks for your advice......
Greg
Had my 4" Grundfos 16S15-14 2 wire replaced(12 yr old) with exact same model on 4/20/12....new SS couplers on 220' Silverline Drop pipe(1.25" x 20'x11)-no check valve except the one on the pump. Running Delat Lighting Arrestor off Schneider 40/60 with copper ground rod.
Running one of Valvemans Circa 2001 CSV's with an in ground Pressure tank.
When it was replaced last April..I noticed one of the 1.25" fittings dripping which caused the pump to cycle 3x an hour-called pump installer 4 times...Never showed.
Anywho....today my 40/60 switch was closed(allowing 240 V to the motor) and the PSI gauge showed zero...So I kicked the breaker off for an hour and this allowed the pump, for some unknown reason to reset and it filled the pressure tank and the Pressure switch turned the pump off at 60PSI.
I discharged the pressure tank and thinking the pump would kick on at 40- it did not.....Contacts closed on 40/60 but nothing from the p[ump. Nada. Anywho....have to repeat process of kicking breaker off...wait 10 minutes and turn on breaker.
So is the pump shot after 13 months and Valveman...since I have to have the above ground PVC replumbed after your massive CSV...can I just replace it with one of your awesome thermoplastic variable 50 or 60 psi model CSV12550 or CSV12560?
Hard to believe I need a 1.5HP pump for a 220ft well....The grundfos is running me about 650 to 700..thinking of running a Schaefer with a Franklin motor instead.
So...perhaps the cycling 75 times a day times 400 days(due to the drip leak i8n the plumbing )played a role in the pumps demise?
Thanks for your advice......
Greg
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