SchooBaka
New Member
Hello everyone. New to the forums and hoping you all can help me with a few questions.
I've owned a house in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 10 years now. I've got a 1hp jet pump on a well that I think is about 80 feet deep, feeding a 40 gallon glass lined steel pressure tank. I intend to measure the water level to confirm depth before replacing the pump.
I want to replace my jet pump with a submersible so I can save some money on the power bill and be able to run it off a generator.
I needed a new generator so I bought the largest one I could afford. It's a generac gp8000e; 8000 running watts and 10,000 surge watts. Before trying to run the well I put an amp clam to one leg of the 240 volt line to the pump and found that at startup the pump is drawing 44 amps and 10 amps running, which puts me at 10,560 surge watts.
Any larger on the generator would run me another $1000 dollars, I looked into submersible pumps and can come close to that amount in materials to just replace my jet pump with a submersible.
My question is, if I have a 1hp jet pump, should I replace it with a 1hp submersible, or can I choose a lower hp submersible and retain the same gpm flow rate?
I've owned a house in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 10 years now. I've got a 1hp jet pump on a well that I think is about 80 feet deep, feeding a 40 gallon glass lined steel pressure tank. I intend to measure the water level to confirm depth before replacing the pump.
I want to replace my jet pump with a submersible so I can save some money on the power bill and be able to run it off a generator.
I needed a new generator so I bought the largest one I could afford. It's a generac gp8000e; 8000 running watts and 10,000 surge watts. Before trying to run the well I put an amp clam to one leg of the 240 volt line to the pump and found that at startup the pump is drawing 44 amps and 10 amps running, which puts me at 10,560 surge watts.
Any larger on the generator would run me another $1000 dollars, I looked into submersible pumps and can come close to that amount in materials to just replace my jet pump with a submersible.
My question is, if I have a 1hp jet pump, should I replace it with a 1hp submersible, or can I choose a lower hp submersible and retain the same gpm flow rate?