Stackz
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so I'm trying to get the well pump up and running so I can overseed and water to present the house for sale.
it used to have a super old myers 1909 pump and did work until the motor finally went out. anyway, I bought two ebay chinese jet pumps (one for each house) and went to hook the one for this house up finally. got it primed and pumping but it short cycles...really really really rapidly when the spigot is turned off that I just unplugged it as it will likely burn up from all the cycling.
there is no tank on the pump as I'm trying to get it running as cheaply as possible just for getting the yard looking green for selling purposes.
here's how I have it setup right now (ignore that the pump housing is separated, while I was getting the wiring sorted I pulled it off and apparently the o-ring slipped and got cut...so I need to go to grainger to get a new one...you can see it to the right of the pump in the pic sigh):
I'm assuming I need a small tank for this thing? would one like either of these work?
https://www.amazon.com/WaterWorker-...d=1&keywords=well+tank&qid=1620127587&sr=8-11
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303854619835
if so, how would I plumb it? I guess remove the spigot and then put a T in and toss the tank on the T? and then put the spigot on the opposite side of the T? do I need anything else? do I need to move the pressure gauge and switch to past the tank and not on the pump housing?
I was reading online and heard about stop cycle valves? they look pretty expensive and would like to not have one if possible since I wont care once the house is sold in a month or so.
my main house has one of these pumps which feeds an old style 40gallon tank (tank has an inlet and outlet and a side port where I tossed my pressure switch and gauge). these newer tanks where they literally have a single port on them and you put the big ole weirdo looking tank tee kind of confuse me based off of what I know from the older setups. this would literally be the first one I would be setting up like this.
ALSO! this chinese pump is a JSW-10M pump but I cant find the pump housing o-ring to save my life which is why I'm hoping my local grainger will have one that will work. if anyone knows where I can get one that would be great!
here's the pump I'm talking about:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/313290041828?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=20160908105057&meid=50cabd784e634a3991bd571ce20db58b&pid=100675&rk=5&rkt=15&mehot=none&sd=154384506788&itm=313290041828&pmt=0&noa=1&pg=2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci:53b441fe-accc-11eb-9c11-ba10c213e08f|parentrq:372618e51790ab8cd7dd1569fff8f33e|iid:1
it literally looks like a knockoff of this one at lowes but unfortunately lowes doesnt sell service parts for their pumps...just pumps.
if I could find a seal online like on amazon I'll just add that to my cart instead of driving 30 miles to grainger lol
it used to have a super old myers 1909 pump and did work until the motor finally went out. anyway, I bought two ebay chinese jet pumps (one for each house) and went to hook the one for this house up finally. got it primed and pumping but it short cycles...really really really rapidly when the spigot is turned off that I just unplugged it as it will likely burn up from all the cycling.
there is no tank on the pump as I'm trying to get it running as cheaply as possible just for getting the yard looking green for selling purposes.
here's how I have it setup right now (ignore that the pump housing is separated, while I was getting the wiring sorted I pulled it off and apparently the o-ring slipped and got cut...so I need to go to grainger to get a new one...you can see it to the right of the pump in the pic sigh):
I'm assuming I need a small tank for this thing? would one like either of these work?
https://www.amazon.com/WaterWorker-...d=1&keywords=well+tank&qid=1620127587&sr=8-11
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303854619835
if so, how would I plumb it? I guess remove the spigot and then put a T in and toss the tank on the T? and then put the spigot on the opposite side of the T? do I need anything else? do I need to move the pressure gauge and switch to past the tank and not on the pump housing?
I was reading online and heard about stop cycle valves? they look pretty expensive and would like to not have one if possible since I wont care once the house is sold in a month or so.
my main house has one of these pumps which feeds an old style 40gallon tank (tank has an inlet and outlet and a side port where I tossed my pressure switch and gauge). these newer tanks where they literally have a single port on them and you put the big ole weirdo looking tank tee kind of confuse me based off of what I know from the older setups. this would literally be the first one I would be setting up like this.
ALSO! this chinese pump is a JSW-10M pump but I cant find the pump housing o-ring to save my life which is why I'm hoping my local grainger will have one that will work. if anyone knows where I can get one that would be great!
here's the pump I'm talking about:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/313290041828?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=20160908105057&meid=50cabd784e634a3991bd571ce20db58b&pid=100675&rk=5&rkt=15&mehot=none&sd=154384506788&itm=313290041828&pmt=0&noa=1&pg=2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci:53b441fe-accc-11eb-9c11-ba10c213e08f|parentrq:372618e51790ab8cd7dd1569fff8f33e|iid:1
it literally looks like a knockoff of this one at lowes but unfortunately lowes doesnt sell service parts for their pumps...just pumps.
if I could find a seal online like on amazon I'll just add that to my cart instead of driving 30 miles to grainger lol
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