Meltdown of an Above Ground Water Well Pump

What causes a pump meltdown in an above ground water pump? Lots of things. The most common is a stopped up Jet orifice. This will make the pump struggle to try and build pressure and when it cannot, it just runs and runs, and eventually it overheats the water, in a scenario where it turns…

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Cycle Reducer for Jet Pumps

You may see a term not familiar in some of my blogs and in my estimates.  It is a product called a cycle reducer.  It is been used in some form or another for 20 or 30 years, but I have streamlined it and made it work for any jet pump. Every few years the…

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Prevention of Well Problems

If you are looking for ideas about how to prevent catastrophic failure of a PVC cased well when the motor overheats, look no further, because we have it. Motor may overheat for any reason such as collapse of formation, pump end failure, piping failure (aka- cheap well driller syndrome), or check valve failure. I know…

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Tank Draw-down and Spec sheet

Bladder tank sizing

The web guy told me to make these blogs longer than 300 words.  What do you say about Tank size and draw-down that would take up that much space? I will tell you that tank size will definitely affect the life of any well system for good or bad.  Good would be a two minute…

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