Check Valve or Ball Valve to HOLD PRIME

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Mike Pastorelli

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I have decided on a different course with my well.
I will be using a 1/2 HP FLOTEC pump and I will be just using my well for irrigation.
I dont want to install a check valve to hold my prime. Can I install a ball valve?
So once I get it her flowing and then when I finish watering, I would just close the ball valve and pull the plug on the pump. This should hold the prime, correct? This will work?
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You could do that but you would want it on the input of the pump unless you have a pressure cutoff switch on the output and before the Ball Valve input.

Or turn the power off before closing the valve.
 

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Funny. All valves have their issues, but a ballvalve not regularly used gums up and might not be useable at all. Disc valves are nice because they are balanced to the pressure. A good gate valve is still hard to beat.
 
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