Nick.bedard
New Member
Hi, hope someone can help me. Our house water is fed from a dugout, when summer hits our filters plug up faster then usual with dirt. We think its the muskrat causing the issue. But recently our pump died on us. It would take a long time to build pressure then would cut in and out enough times to blow the breaker, but now its totally dead. So we replaced it with a new 3/4 convertible pump (same kind as what was in it previous just different brand). The new pump does the same thing now. The pumps pressure switch is set for 20/50. When it finally hits 50 after about 10 minutes of trying it keeps turning off and on non stop. When looking at the gauge while it happens i see that it is going between 20 and 50 psi each time.
We have checked the pressure tank and it was low so we topped it up to 18 psi. We have changed the filters not to long ago before the pump died. If i close the line just after the pressure tank the pump still takes for ever yo build pressure.
If i turn off the water just after the pump (4 feet) it still does the cut in and out very fast non stop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
We have tried to locate the foot valve in thw dug out but couldn't find it. Will try looking again tomorrow
Thanks for the help
We have checked the pressure tank and it was low so we topped it up to 18 psi. We have changed the filters not to long ago before the pump died. If i close the line just after the pressure tank the pump still takes for ever yo build pressure.
If i turn off the water just after the pump (4 feet) it still does the cut in and out very fast non stop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
We have tried to locate the foot valve in thw dug out but couldn't find it. Will try looking again tomorrow
Thanks for the help