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 through McMaster-Carr which failed me, flooding our finished basement. The sages here told me you should always use two float switches in series with an alarm, which was the setup I used next, and it worked fine for awhile. This failed me in the opposite extreme, inconveniently when I was away on business. The cistern went dry, my wife called me saying the house supply pump was running continually; thankfully the pump did not burn up, but it did require a plumber to prime it. This happened in January, and out of frustration with failures with an automatic system we have been manually monitoring and adding to the cistern level.
The monitoring is growing tedious, I would like to return to an automatic, reliable system. Any other thoughts out there? A friend recommended a commercial dishwasher water control setup, with upper and lower level settings and alarm. Does anyone here know of these being used for such a purpose, or what else I might try? TIA!!!
The monitoring is growing tedious, I would like to return to an automatic, reliable system. Any other thoughts out there? A friend recommended a commercial dishwasher water control setup, with upper and lower level settings and alarm. Does anyone here know of these being used for such a purpose, or what else I might try? TIA!!!