Advice on well house plumbing

[Reach4]

3 HP is a lot for a house. I suspect you have maybe a 10 gpm 3 hp pump. A 10 gpm 1.5 hp or a 7 gpm 1 hp pump would have been a better choice for a house, but keep using this while it is working.

I would replace the start capacitor in advance, because those have limited life. 10 years might be a good interval. It may be hard to get quickly, but they can be cheap if it is not urgent. They are non-polarized electrolytic capacitors, if that means anything to you.

 

[freemarmoset]

3 HP is a lot for a house. I suspect you have maybe a 10 gpm 3 hp pump. A 10 gpm 1.5 hp or a 7 gpm 1 hp pump would have been a better choice for a house.

Yeah, I can't really guess at the reasoning. Along with the house, it is supplying two barns and several hydrants on our 15 acres. Maybe the original owners had some other needs at some time? The house is the primary consumer though, and filling livestock tanks and watering in a greenhouse is intermittent. There are very limited times there'd be water on everywhere at once.

but keep using this while it is working.

That's the plan now. At any rate the bladder in the current tank is shot (symptom or cause of the switch problem I don't know) so I'll be getting a new tank. So now thinking about whether to stick with the 80gal one that's worked to this point, or going larger.

I would replace the start capacitor in advance, because those have limited life. 10 years might be a good interval. It may be hard to get quickly, but they can be cheap if it is not urgent. They are non-polarized electrolytic capacitors, if that means anything to you.

It doesn't, but I appreciate the tip and will endeavor to learn more

 

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[Valveman]

The house is the primary consumer though, and filling livestock tanks and watering in a greenhouse is intermittent. There are very limited times there'd be water on everywhere at once.

Because of all the varied uses for water you need a Cycle Stop Valve worse than many people. But when the pump is way too big and builds more pressure than a CSV can handle, use an even larger pressure tank to reduce the cycling as best as you can.

 

[freemarmoset]

As usual, I've learned a ton on a project with the help of this forum; thanks! I did end up finding the date code on the control box (08G19), so 2008 from what I understand, but never was able to track down who installed it. I was able to source a 119gal tank locally, so I'm going to go with that for as long as this pump lives, and rework the system when it becomes necessary.