I have a well, approx 400 feet deep and about 100 feet from the house. The pumptec never detects a dry well condition, to remedy this it was suggested I have had a cut off switch put on the control switch.
The well is very poor and runs out often,.
Usually the cut off switch works fine however, fairly regularly-I have been in the house about 3 years and it has happened at least 10 times now, even with the cut off switch the well has run dry and the pump has heated up the pipe so that it bursts about 5 or 6 feet from the pump. Each time this happens I have to call the well guy out to pull the pump and replace a piece of pipe which is getting pretty expensive. Each time he tries something else-thicker pipe nearer the pump, solid metal pipe near the pump but nothing seems to work long term
He has explained that the pumptec doesnt work because the wire guage is wrong , too thin ,in the well so the pumptec doesnt work correctly.
My question is this-is this a correct assumption regarding the pumptec not working due to the wiring and if so is there a way to remedy this without changing the wire which I believe will run quite expensive. One thought was maybe the "cycle sensor" being used instead of a pumptec as I believe this may shut off in dead head situations which the Franklin doesnt?
Also i read about recalibrating the pumptec but I dont seem to have many options-it has one green and one red light then inside i only have the option to adjust the reset time not the sensitivity.
NB The pumptec is not faulty as I have a second well on the property ( I have to use both to get just enough water!) and I have swapped over pumptecs and on the second well it functions correctly..
Many thanks for any help
The well is very poor and runs out often,.
Usually the cut off switch works fine however, fairly regularly-I have been in the house about 3 years and it has happened at least 10 times now, even with the cut off switch the well has run dry and the pump has heated up the pipe so that it bursts about 5 or 6 feet from the pump. Each time this happens I have to call the well guy out to pull the pump and replace a piece of pipe which is getting pretty expensive. Each time he tries something else-thicker pipe nearer the pump, solid metal pipe near the pump but nothing seems to work long term
He has explained that the pumptec doesnt work because the wire guage is wrong , too thin ,in the well so the pumptec doesnt work correctly.
My question is this-is this a correct assumption regarding the pumptec not working due to the wiring and if so is there a way to remedy this without changing the wire which I believe will run quite expensive. One thought was maybe the "cycle sensor" being used instead of a pumptec as I believe this may shut off in dead head situations which the Franklin doesnt?
Also i read about recalibrating the pumptec but I dont seem to have many options-it has one green and one red light then inside i only have the option to adjust the reset time not the sensitivity.
NB The pumptec is not faulty as I have a second well on the property ( I have to use both to get just enough water!) and I have swapped over pumptecs and on the second well it functions correctly..
Many thanks for any help