Muleskinner
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Hi! New to the forum, glad to have found you folks. Seems like this might be the right place to ask some questions about what we're trying to do.
We have a piece of property on the olympic peninsula that we're building out ourselves and we're attempting to run our three wire well pump off of a generator and have it feed a water holding tank located a few feet from the well itself. All we want to do is run the well pump to fill the holding tank- no pressure tank because all our pressure will come from gravity from the 1100 gallon holding tank as the usage area is located about a hundred feet below the tank. Can anyone help with figuring out how to wire a three-wire 1/2 horsepower red lion well pump w/ a separate control box to a generator, without a pressure switch/tank, so that we can pump water up from the well into the holding tank? It's a 230 volt well pump, we have a plenty powerful generator (9000 watts, 240 volt) with a 4-prong outlet. We simply want to run the generator once in a while to fill the tank as needed, we don't need any kind of automatic on/off system or anything complicated. Would love some help with this!
We have a piece of property on the olympic peninsula that we're building out ourselves and we're attempting to run our three wire well pump off of a generator and have it feed a water holding tank located a few feet from the well itself. All we want to do is run the well pump to fill the holding tank- no pressure tank because all our pressure will come from gravity from the 1100 gallon holding tank as the usage area is located about a hundred feet below the tank. Can anyone help with figuring out how to wire a three-wire 1/2 horsepower red lion well pump w/ a separate control box to a generator, without a pressure switch/tank, so that we can pump water up from the well into the holding tank? It's a 230 volt well pump, we have a plenty powerful generator (9000 watts, 240 volt) with a 4-prong outlet. We simply want to run the generator once in a while to fill the tank as needed, we don't need any kind of automatic on/off system or anything complicated. Would love some help with this!
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