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This forum has been a great help in times past in providing guidance for setting up float switches in a cistern. I have a dry hole for a well, with the well pump (protected) flowing into a cistern from which a house supply pump pressurizes storage tanks. Initially I had one float switch acquired...

Fourteen months after successfully installing a float switch in my cistern to control the water level fed by a well pump (credit due to members of this forum who patiently saw me through the exercise), the switch evidently failed me last night as I awoke to an inch of water in my finished...

I don't know if this question might be better posed on an electrical forum, but here goes: With my newly installed (cistern) float switch controlling a definite purpose contactor which provides power to a Pumptec protector, I am observing the following: when the water level drops from laundry...

Having "completed" my well-to-cistern project I have a question after observing the operation of the float switch itself. Before installing the switch I tested it in-hand with a Fluke meter and it would consistently activate at anything short of vertical. I have slowly been filling the cistern...

Greetings again, folks. I am deep into my well discharge pipe-to-cistern project which thus far has gone swimmingly with much thanks to this forum. I am approaching the final connection stage and need to ask if anyone could advise me on this fitting: The black poly coming in from the left is...

I have a well pump at 385 feet, the output of which is marginal at best; two loads of laundry within a period of a couple of hours is out of the question. An adjacent neighbor had a new well dug to a depth of 1000 feet and estimates for the same are running in the $25K range. We bought this...