Hello,
This is my first post to this forum.
So, I built a new home a couple of years ago. Broke ground in April and had no water when basement was dug. Moved in around October and starting in December, the sump pump was running constantly. It appears to be a high water table during fall/winter months (November-June). I'm not really sure there's much that can be done about this. What I am dealing with is a sump pump that runs approximately every 10 seconds for 6 months of the year. The other part of the year, there's barely a trickle of water into a dry pit. So, my setup: I have a Zoeller pump with the built in switch which does not have a very larger vertical range, thus the pump is cycling very frequently. If I unplug the pump, the water will rise quickly until it gets above the drain tile entering the pit, then basically slows to the point where you can barely notice it climbing. I've never left it like this for more than about 10 min for fear of what might happen. So, finally to my question... If I were to replace my pump with a type that doesn't have a built in switch, would one of the tether (corded) float switches allow me to set the pump up so that it only comes on when the water gets up above the tile in the pit, thus changing the frequency of the cycle time from seconds to several minutes? Is this a viable way to handle this problem? I know of another person in a similar situation who installed a controller which makes it so he can set the time when the pump comes on to be any number of minutes after the float switch is triggered, thus also allowing the cycle time to be manipulated.
Many thanks for any input this forum's members can share.
This is my first post to this forum.
So, I built a new home a couple of years ago. Broke ground in April and had no water when basement was dug. Moved in around October and starting in December, the sump pump was running constantly. It appears to be a high water table during fall/winter months (November-June). I'm not really sure there's much that can be done about this. What I am dealing with is a sump pump that runs approximately every 10 seconds for 6 months of the year. The other part of the year, there's barely a trickle of water into a dry pit. So, my setup: I have a Zoeller pump with the built in switch which does not have a very larger vertical range, thus the pump is cycling very frequently. If I unplug the pump, the water will rise quickly until it gets above the drain tile entering the pit, then basically slows to the point where you can barely notice it climbing. I've never left it like this for more than about 10 min for fear of what might happen. So, finally to my question... If I were to replace my pump with a type that doesn't have a built in switch, would one of the tether (corded) float switches allow me to set the pump up so that it only comes on when the water gets up above the tile in the pit, thus changing the frequency of the cycle time from seconds to several minutes? Is this a viable way to handle this problem? I know of another person in a similar situation who installed a controller which makes it so he can set the time when the pump comes on to be any number of minutes after the float switch is triggered, thus also allowing the cycle time to be manipulated.
Many thanks for any input this forum's members can share.