rikmoor
New Member
So I have just finished installing and calibrating my do it yourself irrigation system. And after a few days of flawless performance, my pump is now acting up. Let me caveat with I have a digital timer and solenoid valves where I should be able to run this fully automatic. But I have a small leak in my manifold I haven't fixed yet so I have been operating it manually. I did not install the pump relay as I don't fully understand it and my thoughts were that when left in auto mode, the pressure switch on the well pump should turn the pump on and off as necessary. When all 3 valves are closed, pressure is maintained at 65 psi and will not run, when the system pressure drops below 20 psi, the pump will kick back on from the pressure switch. And it worked fine like this for about 3 days.
However now my pump is kicking on and off repeatedly when trying to irrigate a zone. The gauge pressure jumps up to about 50psi, pump kicks of, pressure drops below 20psi, pump kicks on - and this repeated on and off cycle is in fractions of seconds. So the stream coming out of my heads is pulsating with the pump motor as it kicks on and off. And the worst part of troubleshooting, this doesn't happen every time. But right now it is about 50/50.
Well pump is the Myers HJ100D and the timer is Rainbird SST-900i.
I just put out 6 pallets of St. Augustine sod on Friday...please help if you can. Thank you in advance!!!
However now my pump is kicking on and off repeatedly when trying to irrigate a zone. The gauge pressure jumps up to about 50psi, pump kicks of, pressure drops below 20psi, pump kicks on - and this repeated on and off cycle is in fractions of seconds. So the stream coming out of my heads is pulsating with the pump motor as it kicks on and off. And the worst part of troubleshooting, this doesn't happen every time. But right now it is about 50/50.
Well pump is the Myers HJ100D and the timer is Rainbird SST-900i.
I just put out 6 pallets of St. Augustine sod on Friday...please help if you can. Thank you in advance!!!