Moccasin
New Member
A while back I ask the forum questions about the changes I wanted to make to my well system. This is what I wound up with. I’ve been using it since then and have experienced only one issue. I am now trying to figure out if it has to do with the cycle stop valve or something else in the system. I had no experience with cycle stop valves before I made the changes and had read that they will smooth out the pressure to keep it consistence. That is not what I have seen in this design. It does, to some extent, help but I’m still experiencing some pressure drops, especially when a toilet is flushed. I talked with a company that supplies solar pumps and deep well equipment and found one of the guys was not a big fan of cycle stop valves. He cautioned that submersible pumps need a certain amount of water flow to keep them cool and a cycle stop can slow down the output to such a degree that it may overheat. My understanding is that a cycle stop valve will keep a pump running constantly as long as more than 2 or 3 GPM is being used, to prolong the life of the pump. Does anyone here know of a case where a pump was damaged by a cycle stop valve?