Rockwind1
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My set up is configured as follows, a 360 foot submersible pump in the well, it pumps water straight up into a 3000 gallon black poly water tank,The submersible pump is switched on and off with some sort of electrode lower and upper limit system.
A typical inch and a quarter pipe comes from the bottom of the black tank and goes into the jet pump, Just passed the jet pump is the pressure switch, then a inch and a quarter pipe tees off and goes into the pressure tank, and finally after the tee there’s a hose bib, and then a ball valve and then the pipe continues on to supply numerous things.
Anyways, the local Well Repair guy, who I have used once before, I had to call them because I wasn’t home and I had a lady staying here with three horses and there was no water. Turns out it was just a screw loose, the well guy charges me 160 bucks for putting a screw into a box but that’s a separate story. Anyways he tells me I need a new pressure tank.
the tank is a flexcon challenger series 81 gallon modell I81-PC244. It has a drawdown of 21.9 gallons @ 40-60 psi
my pressure gauge turns on at exactly 40 psi and turns off at exactly 66 psi.
AFTER it turns of the pressure gauge will slowly go down to about 63 psi where it will stabilize after about two or three minutes.
The air pressure in the pressure tank is exactly 38 psi and I used a rather expensive digital air pressure gauge. I checked the tank pressure by completely emptying the tank, shutting off the pressure gauge and turning off the valves on either side of the set up
I did a drawdown test with a 5 gallon bucket and a long hose and I guesstimated it out about 18 gallons
The Challenger series pressure tank sounds hollow all the way up the entire metal casing, I called Flexcon and they said due to the nature of their bladder, that is normal
I guess my final question is, is the well guy lying to me? I didn’t really ask him why he thought I need a new tank, but I don’t see what’s wrong with this one
He quoted me over $1000 for a new one.
A typical inch and a quarter pipe comes from the bottom of the black tank and goes into the jet pump, Just passed the jet pump is the pressure switch, then a inch and a quarter pipe tees off and goes into the pressure tank, and finally after the tee there’s a hose bib, and then a ball valve and then the pipe continues on to supply numerous things.
Anyways, the local Well Repair guy, who I have used once before, I had to call them because I wasn’t home and I had a lady staying here with three horses and there was no water. Turns out it was just a screw loose, the well guy charges me 160 bucks for putting a screw into a box but that’s a separate story. Anyways he tells me I need a new pressure tank.
the tank is a flexcon challenger series 81 gallon modell I81-PC244. It has a drawdown of 21.9 gallons @ 40-60 psi
my pressure gauge turns on at exactly 40 psi and turns off at exactly 66 psi.
AFTER it turns of the pressure gauge will slowly go down to about 63 psi where it will stabilize after about two or three minutes.
The air pressure in the pressure tank is exactly 38 psi and I used a rather expensive digital air pressure gauge. I checked the tank pressure by completely emptying the tank, shutting off the pressure gauge and turning off the valves on either side of the set up
I did a drawdown test with a 5 gallon bucket and a long hose and I guesstimated it out about 18 gallons
The Challenger series pressure tank sounds hollow all the way up the entire metal casing, I called Flexcon and they said due to the nature of their bladder, that is normal
I guess my final question is, is the well guy lying to me? I didn’t really ask him why he thought I need a new tank, but I don’t see what’s wrong with this one
He quoted me over $1000 for a new one.
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