It would tell you how many PSI the pump can make. Do the math at .43 PSI per foot of depth plus the PSI you desire and compare it to the published pump curve. I'm guessing at least 170 PSI. If the pump cannot make that much pressure there is not much point putting it down the hole.I am not sure what the test would tell me at this moment...
Surely you have 200 feet of wire coiling up at your feet that you could simply keep attached to the pump?...with a three wire pump I cannot bench test it just by running temporary power to it...
And lastly...I am buying water at the grocery store 3 gallons at a time...so I don't have a tank of water to put the pump in. Although if I could, I would.
It would tell you how many PSI the pump can make. Do the math at .43 PSI per foot of depth plus the PSI you desire and compare it to the published pump curve. I'm guessing at least 170 PSI. If the pump cannot make that much pressure there is not much point putting it down the hole.
More than likely a bad splice. I have rarely had one DOA (Myers) and never a Goulds.
Also check to make sure that you have the right wires matched up (black, yellow, red).
It seemed to me like this thread was starting to get convoluted so I read through it. Again. The pump is bad. No bad check valves or broken pipes. The pump is just plain bad.
I read a test procedure here to check the splice but I want to revalidate what to do. My splice at the moment is sitting in a plastic tray of water. What procedure would be best? Thanks.
Congratulations on eventual success. I wonder how you measured the amps you did with the pump saver shutting you down. That doesn't fit IMO.
7 pages and more than a month later...
It's hard to give good advice when the data is dubious. There is a term in computing called GIGO. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
If you reread the OP, the symptoms were:
Pump pulling full amps
Pressure won't reach cutoff
Pumpsaver deemed good
Control box tripping
Now, if a pump is pulling full amps, the pumpsaver should not be shutting it down and according to the OP, it was not the pumpsaver but rather the control box tripping. 7 pages and more than a month later...
I didn't post this information here to be ridiculed....
This is awkward, but...
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