Frank Rocha
New Member
Our current setup up is a submersible pump feeding a 3,000 storage tank, and a booster pump between the storage tank and the pressure tank. About a year ago, we replaced a HUGE galvanized pressure tank (it was about 10 feet tall) with an Amtrol WellXTrol (WX-350). Everything was great for about 6 months, then something odd started to happen. About a half dozen times now, for no apparent reason, under various conditions (nothing consistent), we will notice we have no water! It never cuts out mid-stream or when we have water running. It's might be when we get home from dinner. Or, first thing in the morning. Or in the middle of the day. With no other water running, we turn on a faucet and nothing! I walk out to the well and the pressure gauge reads "0"PSI. I slightly move the toggle on the side of the pressure switch and the gauge immediately snaps up to 70PSI and everything is fine. To be clear, there is NO ramp up of pressure, the gauge snaps immediately to its high pressure reading and everything works fine. It is as though it "thinks" it has zero pressure but in fact it is fully pressurized? I believe our switch is set to 50/70 as the well is quite a distance from our home. We have had the switch replaced 3 times, most recently a month ago (thinking it is a bad pressure switch?) and it happened again yesterday. The switch is brand new and clean (no bugs or debris in it). I drained the pressure tank and put an air gauge on it and it read 45PSI so I don't think it is a bladder problem. Any ideas? I've had two different well companies look at it and both are baffled? Could it be electrical?