Gary Slusser
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That type switch is like $15-20 retail.If a pump costs $500 and there is a 10% chance of a ruinous failure over the life of the well then you should spend less than 10% of $500 = less than $50 on the failure prevention device.
For a 50% chance you should spend $250 or less.
I was only 1 guy out of maybe 3 dozen that serviced well pumps in my service area so I have no idea of how many pumps were there.1 to 4 pump failures per year out of how many pumps "out there" that didn't fail each year?
How long is the life of a well?
All the wells were 6" steel rock bore. I only saw one that rusted through and the hole was about 5' down in the exposed casing before it went in the ground outside of a basement wall in a cement root cellar with a dirt floor. The house was about 60 years old.