I bought a house that no one has been living in for some time and it has a 1HP deep well with a control box, I don't know how deep it is or what brand motor it is.
I threw the breaker and it started to pump water for about 20-30 seconds then the control box started to smoke so I shut the breaker down. Did it again same thing but this time the cap blew. I figured it was a bad capacitor so I bought a new one, same thing started, smoke tried again worked for 30 seconds and blew. I thought a capacitor just gets the motor to start and after 20-30 seconds it would not be used but someone told me the motor must be drawing to many amps and blows the cap, does that sound right? He said there is a way of by passing the control box and getting the pump to run so I can check the amps and so forth but didn't tell me how. Does anyone know how to do this and can explain to me step by step how. I am a very handy guy and can handle it if told what to do. Could it be that the pump is just clogged up from sitting? Can it be serviced? The pressure switch is all rusty but is not stuck or the points pitted could that be it? Thank you for any help.
I threw the breaker and it started to pump water for about 20-30 seconds then the control box started to smoke so I shut the breaker down. Did it again same thing but this time the cap blew. I figured it was a bad capacitor so I bought a new one, same thing started, smoke tried again worked for 30 seconds and blew. I thought a capacitor just gets the motor to start and after 20-30 seconds it would not be used but someone told me the motor must be drawing to many amps and blows the cap, does that sound right? He said there is a way of by passing the control box and getting the pump to run so I can check the amps and so forth but didn't tell me how. Does anyone know how to do this and can explain to me step by step how. I am a very handy guy and can handle it if told what to do. Could it be that the pump is just clogged up from sitting? Can it be serviced? The pressure switch is all rusty but is not stuck or the points pitted could that be it? Thank you for any help.