Pumping uphill

[Ballvalve]

I have read that too, an odd method to suggest. Seems applicable only to larger HP and wells not prone to providing a hard to start situation.

I suppose the poor mans soft start is just feeding through a few 600' foot rolls of thhw screwed on the pump house wall before the well and after the box.

I see electricians grossly oversize pump wire because they don't use Franklin's charts, and don't understand their motors construction.

 

[Valveman]

It works with small pumps as well. I have tried it many times now. There is still plenty of torque for startup. Of course I use a CSV on all my systems so it already has a mechanical soft start. Starting a pump against a closed valve, or in the case of a CSV, starting against a valve closed to 1 GPM, is much easier to start than if starting at full flow and full power.

You can’t leave the extra wire rolled up. It turns into a coil or transformer.

And I don’t see it as a “poor mans soft start”, I see it as a smart mans soft start. No electronics and accomplishes the same task.

 

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[Gary Slusser]

If 2510' of #6 is marginal, he can increase the size of the Romex from the panel box to the pressure switch etc. as needed for the right combination. You can find out all about that in the Franklin manual.

I would use a 2 wire pump, no control box or 3rd (start) conductor required and regular 4/2 with ground well pump ribbon cable (direct bury at whatever depth you want/need). And if this was mine, it would be in the same trench as my 200 psi rated PE.

And if I wanted a 1 hp pump, which I would so I could do away with the high maintenance with a cistern (especially using creek/spring? water), and to get rid of the jet pump, or a submersible in the cistern required to get water out of the cistern, I'd combine the minimum length of #4 and the rest would be #6. That's in the Franklin manual also. And I sure as hell wouldn't consider solar and a 1.x gpm Shurflo pump and play around while using up my reserve in the cistern until the toy pump pumped for like 5+ hours to just refill down to the reserve and longer if I used any of the reserve.