James Thomas
New Member
New member here, I've been reading different sites and forums all day, this forum seems the most helpful.
Anyways, a little back history, well is from the 70s-80s, no known depths, most wells around here are in the mid 300ft to 500ft range. All of the above ground parts are 10 years old.
About 4 months ago my automatic shutoff failed ON for at least a month, every since then my pressure has been falling, now when I turn the water on it drops down to about 0-5psi, (still enough pressure for one faucet at a time.) When I turn the water back off the pressure jumps right back up to 50psi (was 60psi but it wouldn't pump that high so I turned the cutout down to shorten the run time)
I just want to make sure that the pump is the problem before I replace.
As far as pumps go, right now my budget is enough for a red lion RL12G15-3W2V
Because I dont know the dept of the well and I'm looking at just pulling and replacing same day/weekend. So I just picked their largest pump. Would their be any Ill effects if my well ends up being shallower?
I was also looking at a company called Schraiber pump, they make one that has about the same performance numbers as the red lion, for a couple hundred cheaper. (They also have great reviews all over on line)
Anyways, a little back history, well is from the 70s-80s, no known depths, most wells around here are in the mid 300ft to 500ft range. All of the above ground parts are 10 years old.
About 4 months ago my automatic shutoff failed ON for at least a month, every since then my pressure has been falling, now when I turn the water on it drops down to about 0-5psi, (still enough pressure for one faucet at a time.) When I turn the water back off the pressure jumps right back up to 50psi (was 60psi but it wouldn't pump that high so I turned the cutout down to shorten the run time)
I just want to make sure that the pump is the problem before I replace.
As far as pumps go, right now my budget is enough for a red lion RL12G15-3W2V
Because I dont know the dept of the well and I'm looking at just pulling and replacing same day/weekend. So I just picked their largest pump. Would their be any Ill effects if my well ends up being shallower?
I was also looking at a company called Schraiber pump, they make one that has about the same performance numbers as the red lion, for a couple hundred cheaper. (They also have great reviews all over on line)