Rx1559
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Geez, there's always something breaking or not working right with our water system! I am eager to learn how I can do my own repairs and how I can increase the reliability of this system!
But our water system components never seem to quite match up to what's on the various YouTube videos and diagrams I see on the web, and I while I have learned a lot just reading through these forums, I am struggling to understand what a few of the components do!
Most recent issue: storage tank is almost empty. So I have to push the 'reset' button on the bottom of my pump control box. After about 20 seconds, water will come out of the wellhead spigot, and shortly after, it will then make it to the storage tank and fill for about 10 minutes, then the fill rate will start to fluctuate a bit and slowly diminsh, until it just stops entirely. Then I have to repeat the process. One smoking gun is a VERY LOUD humming coming from the solenoid valve on the storage tank input. Didn't use to hum like that. Another smoking gun is that, over the past 4 months, I would have to push the pump control box reset button after a power outage -- never had to do that in the past.
So anyway, maybe someone can help me understand a few things:
Overview:
4BD 5BA house; the well drilling guru said he's never seen a well run dry in this area in the 50 years he's been in business; our water conditioner guy said our water's iron, hardness, etc is "perfect" and doesn't need any conditioning other the perhaps a big green silt filter.
At the well head:
At the storage tank:
But our water system components never seem to quite match up to what's on the various YouTube videos and diagrams I see on the web, and I while I have learned a lot just reading through these forums, I am struggling to understand what a few of the components do!
Most recent issue: storage tank is almost empty. So I have to push the 'reset' button on the bottom of my pump control box. After about 20 seconds, water will come out of the wellhead spigot, and shortly after, it will then make it to the storage tank and fill for about 10 minutes, then the fill rate will start to fluctuate a bit and slowly diminsh, until it just stops entirely. Then I have to repeat the process. One smoking gun is a VERY LOUD humming coming from the solenoid valve on the storage tank input. Didn't use to hum like that. Another smoking gun is that, over the past 4 months, I would have to push the pump control box reset button after a power outage -- never had to do that in the past.
So anyway, maybe someone can help me understand a few things:
- Why is there a little 2g pressure tank at the wellhead? Why doesn't the well simply pump directly into the 5000g storage tank when the lower float switch kicks it on, and shuts off when the upper float switch tells it to stop? (Note that the gauage upstream of this tank indicates 0 PSI when the well pump is off, and jumps to about 50 PSI about 20 seconds after the pump kicks on)
- Why is there a solenoid valve on the storage tank's water input? Note that there are 3-4 old solenoid valves and PVC parts that have been cut out and littered around, so I suspect this thing fails all the time. To prevent backflow, I would expect one or two check valves on the downtube. But I am at a loss to understand why there needs to be electronic flow control here.
Overview:
4BD 5BA house; the well drilling guru said he's never seen a well run dry in this area in the 50 years he's been in business; our water conditioner guy said our water's iron, hardness, etc is "perfect" and doesn't need any conditioning other the perhaps a big green silt filter.
At the well head:
- 1.5hp pump and new wiring, that is about 3 years old
- 300' deep well with a ~6" bore
- CentriPro Pump Control Box model CB15412CR, for a 1.5hp 230v 10A 3450RPM pump
- Pressure Switch: SquareD 40/60 PSI
- PumpSaver Plus that always has its green "run" lite on
- Goulds HydroPro Water Systems inline tank V6P100 (2 gallon)
At the storage tank:
- 5000 gallon poly cal plastics tank
- (2) Goulds booster pump model 25GBC10 (25 GPM, 1HP)
- (1) Westank Hydropneumatic bladder tank
- (1) Goulds Hydropro V250D pressure booster tank (83.5 gallons)