mirinjesse
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I have had the 2HP VFD installed for 6 months https://www.aquascience.net/downloa..._aquavar_installation_and_troubleshooting.pdf. It’s got a small expansion tank included.
I’m on town water, 50psi, boosting to 70psi and expansion tank is filled to 60 which is 5 below the turn on pressure of 65. Been working fine, then I got irrigation installed and I seem to be having the occasional issue where I get a “lose of prime error” and my pump turns off and has to be reset. I have done some troubleshooting and I believe when I have irrigation on and say take a shower at the same time, my water flow can’t keep up with the required 70psi because the incoming pressure is so low. So I did some testing and ran irrigation without anything else running and it seems to work, but then another time it seemed to get the error, so not sure if it’s just this or if has to do with lower incoming water flow at times as well?
Is there anything I can do, besides lowering the pressure down which kind of defeats the purpose of installing this? Bigger expansion tank so it gives the unit more time to catch-up?
I’m on town water, 50psi, boosting to 70psi and expansion tank is filled to 60 which is 5 below the turn on pressure of 65. Been working fine, then I got irrigation installed and I seem to be having the occasional issue where I get a “lose of prime error” and my pump turns off and has to be reset. I have done some troubleshooting and I believe when I have irrigation on and say take a shower at the same time, my water flow can’t keep up with the required 70psi because the incoming pressure is so low. So I did some testing and ran irrigation without anything else running and it seems to work, but then another time it seemed to get the error, so not sure if it’s just this or if has to do with lower incoming water flow at times as well?
Is there anything I can do, besides lowering the pressure down which kind of defeats the purpose of installing this? Bigger expansion tank so it gives the unit more time to catch-up?
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