I’m hoping that you all can help me with a few pump/storage tank questions. I’m new to the whole well, storage tank, pressure pump, pressure tank thing, but I’m very willing to learn and I prefer to do things myself so that when things break on a weekend, as they always do, I won’t have to wait until Monday or later to have water again. Sorry ahead of time for the small book but I figure most are like me and would rather have too much information than not enough.
We live on a two party well that supplies two storage tanks, one for me and one for my neighbor. Our storage tank sits above ground (around 2600 gallons). A 2†pipe comes from the bottom of the tank to a gate valve then a tee. One tee goes to another gate valve and a fire hose bib and the other tee goes to an unknown brand/?HP pressure pump. From the pressure pump the line goes to a one-way valve and then another tee. One side of the T goes to a pressure tank and the other side then goes 325’ to the house. All pipe is 2†PVC and buried underground with the exception of the 10-15’ that is all around the storage tank/pump/pressure tank.
Over the last several months we’ve had intermittent loss of water at the house. The first time it was a faulty one-way valve causing the pump motor to continuously cycle activating the overheat switch. We replaced the valve and things went well for a while. Recently, the pump is starting to overheat again for no reason that I can find other than it’s old and looks decrepit. I go down to the pump and turn it off and then wait an hour or two and turn it on. So far it comes back on and re-pressurizes the system, I’m sure one day it won’t. I have no idea who made the pump or how old it is or what HP it is – there are no markings on it anywhere. In planning for the worst, but expecting the best, I bought another pump to replace the old one with. A Gould’s 1.5HP J15S jet pump.
The Gould’s pump installation instructions call for the one-way valve to be placed before the pump. In my current set up it’s downstream from the pump. Does it really matter? Is one way better than the other? Also, the Gould’s is set for 220V and comes with it’s own pressure switch. My current pump looks like it’s also set for 220V but it has wiring coming from the 220V line then to a Square D pressure switch then back to the pump with one leg going off to a 120V on-off switch. I’m wondering if I can just direct wire the 220V to the Gould’s pump and call it done – downstream from a 220V on-off switch, of course.
Hoping for some feedback and probably the opportunity to ask more questions since I’m new to the whole thing but it’s been kind of fun so far in learning about it. Of course, when the water goes off for good that probably won’t be too fun, but that’s why I’m thinking ahead! Thanks in advance.
We live on a two party well that supplies two storage tanks, one for me and one for my neighbor. Our storage tank sits above ground (around 2600 gallons). A 2†pipe comes from the bottom of the tank to a gate valve then a tee. One tee goes to another gate valve and a fire hose bib and the other tee goes to an unknown brand/?HP pressure pump. From the pressure pump the line goes to a one-way valve and then another tee. One side of the T goes to a pressure tank and the other side then goes 325’ to the house. All pipe is 2†PVC and buried underground with the exception of the 10-15’ that is all around the storage tank/pump/pressure tank.
Over the last several months we’ve had intermittent loss of water at the house. The first time it was a faulty one-way valve causing the pump motor to continuously cycle activating the overheat switch. We replaced the valve and things went well for a while. Recently, the pump is starting to overheat again for no reason that I can find other than it’s old and looks decrepit. I go down to the pump and turn it off and then wait an hour or two and turn it on. So far it comes back on and re-pressurizes the system, I’m sure one day it won’t. I have no idea who made the pump or how old it is or what HP it is – there are no markings on it anywhere. In planning for the worst, but expecting the best, I bought another pump to replace the old one with. A Gould’s 1.5HP J15S jet pump.
The Gould’s pump installation instructions call for the one-way valve to be placed before the pump. In my current set up it’s downstream from the pump. Does it really matter? Is one way better than the other? Also, the Gould’s is set for 220V and comes with it’s own pressure switch. My current pump looks like it’s also set for 220V but it has wiring coming from the 220V line then to a Square D pressure switch then back to the pump with one leg going off to a 120V on-off switch. I’m wondering if I can just direct wire the 220V to the Gould’s pump and call it done – downstream from a 220V on-off switch, of course.
Hoping for some feedback and probably the opportunity to ask more questions since I’m new to the whole thing but it’s been kind of fun so far in learning about it. Of course, when the water goes off for good that probably won’t be too fun, but that’s why I’m thinking ahead! Thanks in advance.
