w30bob
New Member
Hi Guys,
I understand the benefits of a CSV and how it works, but I want to optimize it for my needs. I get that for large water demands the CSV stops the pump cycling and provides a continuous pressure while the demand exists. But I also need to address the cycling that occurs when I just need a small amount of water many times a day.
We live in a 3 bathroom house, but it's just me and my girlfriend. So the large water demands come from washing clothes, showering, watering the lawn, washing the car, etc. But for health reasons my girlfriend flushes the toilet many times a day, which is a small (2 gallon?) water demand. So (assuming I understand CSVs) wouldn't the best thing for me to do would be to install a CSV with a pretty LARGE pressure tank?
This way when we demand lots of water, say for a shower, the tank empties and trips the pressure switch and the CSV keeps the pump running until we're done showering.............which reduces the amount of times the pump cycles to just once. And then when we use a little bit of water many times (like flushing a toilet) the large pressure tank would keep the pump from cycling each time we flush the toilet (which it would do each time or two with a CSV and a small pressure tank). Wouldn't that be the BEST of both worlds? Or am I missing something? To that end, wouldn't everybody benefit from a CSV with a LARGE pressure tank to deal with both high and low water demand events? I just don't see the downside to having a large pressure tank and a CSV, other than space for the pressure tank, which you'd have already if you're replacing your existing bad tank.
If this was covered previously in another post I apologize. I did look thru a few pages of posts but ran out of time to read stuff. Thanks for your help on this.
regards,
bob
I understand the benefits of a CSV and how it works, but I want to optimize it for my needs. I get that for large water demands the CSV stops the pump cycling and provides a continuous pressure while the demand exists. But I also need to address the cycling that occurs when I just need a small amount of water many times a day.
We live in a 3 bathroom house, but it's just me and my girlfriend. So the large water demands come from washing clothes, showering, watering the lawn, washing the car, etc. But for health reasons my girlfriend flushes the toilet many times a day, which is a small (2 gallon?) water demand. So (assuming I understand CSVs) wouldn't the best thing for me to do would be to install a CSV with a pretty LARGE pressure tank?
This way when we demand lots of water, say for a shower, the tank empties and trips the pressure switch and the CSV keeps the pump running until we're done showering.............which reduces the amount of times the pump cycles to just once. And then when we use a little bit of water many times (like flushing a toilet) the large pressure tank would keep the pump from cycling each time we flush the toilet (which it would do each time or two with a CSV and a small pressure tank). Wouldn't that be the BEST of both worlds? Or am I missing something? To that end, wouldn't everybody benefit from a CSV with a LARGE pressure tank to deal with both high and low water demand events? I just don't see the downside to having a large pressure tank and a CSV, other than space for the pressure tank, which you'd have already if you're replacing your existing bad tank.
If this was covered previously in another post I apologize. I did look thru a few pages of posts but ran out of time to read stuff. Thanks for your help on this.
regards,
bob