Jfharper
Member
Hi,
I think my holding tank went empty this morning. We ran out of water, and I manually flipped and held the switch to the booster...the booster came on but sounded funny, as soon as I released the booster switch it shut off. My guess is the switch has a safety thing where it will not turn the booster on unless there is enough base pressure.
So if there was not enough base pressure, my guess was there was no feed water from the holding tank. My holding tank is on a platform 15 or so feet above the ground...so it is not easy to climb up and look inside.
I have a manual switch to turn the submersible pump on and that is what I did...the tank began to fill up and the tank sounded like it was low...lots of echoing going on...I left the manual switch on for about 10 minutes, then flipped the booster switch on and the booster sounded like it was running some air through the system, then it sounded normal...I took my hand of the booster switch lever and it stayed on...the pressure went up to 60 psi and booster turned off...so it looks like the booster and booster switch are both working normally (along with the pressure tanks...I have two of them, one of them is new).
So my guess is a problem with the float, sending unit or relay switch...since I have not, to date, fixed anything with the holding tank, relay switch or float mechanism I thought I would ask for help here on what to test first. I'm guessing on the components that make up this part of the system. Since it is hard to climb up to my holding tank, is there a check I can do at the electrical box first, perhaps running a volt meter or indicator light at the relay switch to see if is getting a signal back from the float, or determine if the relay switch is not sending a signal to the float? I'm hoping to start with the relay switch since this is easier than climbing up to the tank. Can someone offer a place or two for me to start?
Thanks for any guidance.
I think my holding tank went empty this morning. We ran out of water, and I manually flipped and held the switch to the booster...the booster came on but sounded funny, as soon as I released the booster switch it shut off. My guess is the switch has a safety thing where it will not turn the booster on unless there is enough base pressure.
So if there was not enough base pressure, my guess was there was no feed water from the holding tank. My holding tank is on a platform 15 or so feet above the ground...so it is not easy to climb up and look inside.
I have a manual switch to turn the submersible pump on and that is what I did...the tank began to fill up and the tank sounded like it was low...lots of echoing going on...I left the manual switch on for about 10 minutes, then flipped the booster switch on and the booster sounded like it was running some air through the system, then it sounded normal...I took my hand of the booster switch lever and it stayed on...the pressure went up to 60 psi and booster turned off...so it looks like the booster and booster switch are both working normally (along with the pressure tanks...I have two of them, one of them is new).
So my guess is a problem with the float, sending unit or relay switch...since I have not, to date, fixed anything with the holding tank, relay switch or float mechanism I thought I would ask for help here on what to test first. I'm guessing on the components that make up this part of the system. Since it is hard to climb up to my holding tank, is there a check I can do at the electrical box first, perhaps running a volt meter or indicator light at the relay switch to see if is getting a signal back from the float, or determine if the relay switch is not sending a signal to the float? I'm hoping to start with the relay switch since this is easier than climbing up to the tank. Can someone offer a place or two for me to start?
Thanks for any guidance.