Hi Guys,
My parents are having issues with their water system. They live on a remote island, next to a small remote town in Alaska, so getting someone out to come look at things is a bit of a challenge. I found this website through google and I'm really hoping someone here can help me.
So they have a shallow well, which catches water from their rain gutters. It is then fed to a Goulds Jet pump, which pumps to a pressurised water tank. The issue they are having is, Sometimes the pump's start switch just keeps clicking on and off. I can hear and see the clicking coming from the back of the pump. It will pump water, but it will keep doing this until it trips the thermal overload and shuts off. While it is doing this, the pump keeps pumping water but only in spurts. I'm not sure if it is short cycling, turning on and off or if the only problem is that the start switch, which deactivated the start capacitor, is not working. The odd thing about this is, that it only does it sometimes. At the time of writing this, the whole system is working fine. The pressure gets low, 20 PSI, the pressure switch activates the pump, the pump comes on, clicks once and then continues to run perfectly until the cut off pressure is reached, 40 PSI. I have no idea why it does this sometimes and then other times I will just hear the pump clicking, pumping a little water and then over heating and shutting off. I took a short video of the pump with my cell phone and I believe you can view that video here:
Like I said it is very difficult and expensive to get someone out here to look at it, so I will appreciate any help at all. Thanks Guys
My parents are having issues with their water system. They live on a remote island, next to a small remote town in Alaska, so getting someone out to come look at things is a bit of a challenge. I found this website through google and I'm really hoping someone here can help me.
So they have a shallow well, which catches water from their rain gutters. It is then fed to a Goulds Jet pump, which pumps to a pressurised water tank. The issue they are having is, Sometimes the pump's start switch just keeps clicking on and off. I can hear and see the clicking coming from the back of the pump. It will pump water, but it will keep doing this until it trips the thermal overload and shuts off. While it is doing this, the pump keeps pumping water but only in spurts. I'm not sure if it is short cycling, turning on and off or if the only problem is that the start switch, which deactivated the start capacitor, is not working. The odd thing about this is, that it only does it sometimes. At the time of writing this, the whole system is working fine. The pressure gets low, 20 PSI, the pressure switch activates the pump, the pump comes on, clicks once and then continues to run perfectly until the cut off pressure is reached, 40 PSI. I have no idea why it does this sometimes and then other times I will just hear the pump clicking, pumping a little water and then over heating and shutting off. I took a short video of the pump with my cell phone and I believe you can view that video here:
Like I said it is very difficult and expensive to get someone out here to look at it, so I will appreciate any help at all. Thanks Guys
