Sorry, don’t mean to sound arrogant. I am just telling it like it is. 9 out of 10 pump problems ARE caused by cycling. So I probably mention CSV’s 8 out of 10 times. Lightning is not one of those problems caused by cycling, so I should not have mentioned a CSV for that. But many times people just think it was lighting when in fact it was cycling that caused the failure and lighting wrongfully got the blame.
Cycle Stop Valves work even better on commercial and municipal applications. The CSV makes pumps last longer, uses much smaller pressure tanks and/or completely eliminates the need for water towers and VFD’s. That would cut out about 75% of the income for your contacts compared to using the old style methods. So they better hope their customers don’t search the Internet and hear about CSV’s or they really will need to start making bicycle seats or something else.
In over 22 years of selling CSV’s I have learned people do not like being corrected or told they are doing something wrong. Over all those years I have gone from wanting to be liked, to realizing I am not doing my job unless people hate me. No one likes being told they are wrong. But don’t shoot the messenger. I didn’t make this stuff up. I am just telling you things that many people don’t want you to know, because it would save you a lot of money and cut them out of a lot of sales.
As far as “coming across hard on other technologies”, I am just trying to straighten out some of the myth-understandings (lies) people are telling about pump systems. The latest burr under my saddle is a class that will be given at the Ground Water Expo this December. Titled “Protecting Groundwater using Variable Speed Technology”, this class claims to teach professionals how VFD’s save energy, protects pumping equipment, and even saves water by minimizing over pumping of wells. Lies, lies, lies! All for getting the end users to spend more for VFD pump systems that won’t last as long or save water.
I studied electronics and knew VFD’s were not the answer 25+ years ago. The number of “professionals” who do not know this, or are blatantly lying to be able to sell more profitable and shorter-lived products like VFD’s, blows me away. There are a lot of big companies who would love to shut me up, if they could prove one single thing I say is incorrect. Over the years many have tried to argue toe to toe on this subject with me and failed miserably. If confidence is considered arrogance, then I can see why you would think that of me. But it is not arrogance, its just fact.
THANKS Reach, LL, and Lowell.