Hi again,
It's been 4 years since going through the job outlined in this thread and everything has been working fine...except for yesterday...my sub would not turn on.
Testing at the control box shows 122 volts going to each leg, 244 volts between the two legs.
3 Ohms Black to Yellow (Run/Main)
11.4 Ohms Red to Yellow (Start)
...did not do amp test
Tried a new control box, my old one was very old, and still sub would not pump...no noise, I have a spigot at top of well...no flow.
I decided to pull the sub, as I had all my old gear, only took a couple hours...
So I have the sub on my workbench, and I'm wondering if I should just put a new sub in, instead of trying to diagnose a sub that someone mentioned in this thread having a manufacture date of 1981. House was built in 1984, could be the original sub.
So this is a 1 HP pump with a Franklin motor (model # two posts above), there are no markings except DURO on the wire cover on the pump side...I can find no other numbers or names or anything.
I think I remember the GPM being measured at 35 when we bought the place in 1999., according to whoever measured it. I cannot find my escrow papers with this info and I've already tried the local drill companies...nobody has my records for drilling the well or installing the sub. I'm trying to figure out what size sub to replace it with and it is a little daunting to figure out. Could someone help me with figuring out the sizing/matching of a replacement, as well as product name to go with/avoid? My well sits 80 feet below ground, water level is at 50 feet. Sub pumps into a 3750 or 4200 gallon holding tank sitting ~25 feet above ground level on a steel raised platform (good for gravity feeding a line of low pressure irrigation). So figure an extra 5 above this for the holding tank inlet tube...goes in upper area of holding tank.
Could I simply put a 1 HP, 22-25 GPM 3450 RPM 4" sub in and be done with it? Water usage is for a 1600 sq ft home, I have some trees irrigated with drip line running from a 3/4 PVC line, about 6500 sq ft of grass around house gets watered nightly, and some misc plant irrigated on timers for about 10-15 minutes nightly.
Thanks.