deathbyDIY
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Okay: dying pump is 4" .75hp Myers "Rustler", 12GPM, 2-wire/230V. It's down 160', installed in 1998. System has an Amtrol WX-203 tank, 30/50 pressure switch.
Shopping for a replacement, and the info you pros supply is priceless. Looking for something Franklin-motored(dying pump was, and lasted 15 yrs.) Research shows Myers no longer uses these motors(?) So if you were replacing your daughter's pump, what brand/series name would you hunt down?
Also, am I disrupting the "math" of the system if I bump up in power(e.g. a 1hp, higher GPM?) I have an instinct that more power means the pump will work less hard, but I have a stronger instinct that I'm just a car guy who's wrong(again) and that I should just replace it with exactly what worked for 15 yrs; altho, of course, I can't. They don't make the same exact pump anymore.
Thanks. You guys rock.
Shopping for a replacement, and the info you pros supply is priceless. Looking for something Franklin-motored(dying pump was, and lasted 15 yrs.) Research shows Myers no longer uses these motors(?) So if you were replacing your daughter's pump, what brand/series name would you hunt down?
Also, am I disrupting the "math" of the system if I bump up in power(e.g. a 1hp, higher GPM?) I have an instinct that more power means the pump will work less hard, but I have a stronger instinct that I'm just a car guy who's wrong(again) and that I should just replace it with exactly what worked for 15 yrs; altho, of course, I can't. They don't make the same exact pump anymore.
Thanks. You guys rock.