Lol! Here we go again. Over the last 30+ years this has happened to me so many times I have written articles and made videos about how embarrassing it is for “some” engineers to be so incredible wrong. To me, when someone brags of their credentials as an “engineer”, they are saying, “I already know everything there is to know and nobody should be questioning me in any way”. Instead of doing the research and learning something new as any good engineer would, they just get REAL ANGRY and double down protecting the Rube Goldburg contraptions they are so proud of. However, there are many good engineers who are still able to learn new things. Here are comments from a couple.
We have been misled by someone who, as a fellow mechanical engineer, should have researched this for himself before publishing such false information and so should have known better!
I really don't care either way about the CSV BUT I am an engineer and can say that the CSV guy who sells this valve has 30+ years of success. From a manufacturing standpoint, that is a very successful outcome for any company.
I do not believe I have ever mentioned my credentials, as I earned my electrical engineering degree when I was 17 and still in high school, and got several patents when I was in my early 30’s. I have been grilled by every engineer for every major pump manufacturer for over 30 years now and have never lost an argument. A lot of them stomp off mad as well, because they cannot prove me wrong. An engineering degree doesn’t impress me in the least. I understand a degree is just a ticket that says you are capable of learning new things, not that you already know everything there is to know. Experience teaches things you can never learn in school. I am an old man now, and with close to a million pump systems under my belt, I think I have learned a few things. Lol!
I have seen this many times in the past. All I have to do is tell some engineers, as nicely as I know how, that they are incorrect, and they will just blow a gasket. Some get so red-faced mad they will never be able to learn anything new again and will never admit they were wrong. No brag just fact, but when it comes to pumps, at my age I may be the most knowledgeable person still alive. Lol! But I would never claim to know all there is to know, as that would make me a bad engineer.
I hate that we got off on the wrong foot, as I really am trying to help you. I just have a bad habit of trying to help people who don’t think they need any help. But you have said several things that let me know I could help. For instance, if your pump can really build 300 PSI, then it would have no problem working with a 130/150 pressure switch setting that would not only lift the 250’ elevation you talk about but give you an additional 30 to 50 PSI pressure to work with at the top of the hill. I also have a little 1/3HP pump that supplies my house through over 7200’ of pipe and very rough terrain. Done things like this many many times.
Funny thing is, you are mad at me for just asking what you are trying to accomplish (and we still don’t know) and I haven’t even mentioned a Cycle Stop Valve. The CSV is so counter intuitive it can make some engineers COMPLETELY lose their minds. It is sad, but almost comical to those of us who can see it. When someone doesn't understand and makes me feel bad for trying to help, I just go read a few of the hundreds of reviews I get from people who really know me and appreciate the help.
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