Kinda like when you restrict a vacuum cleaner hose and the motor speeds up, not because it's working harder but because it's got less of a load.
TMIAll these years when I accidentally sucked up my shorts I thought the motor was gonna blow so I yanked the cord!
OMG I used to do 8 cord a year mostly by myself. 15 cord is a whole lot of wear and tear on ones back. I'm 63 and now just buy wood cause my back is shot. Bought an antique conveyor to get it up on the deck.
My well is 600ft but they hung the pump at 360. They know the water table levels in the area and the drawdown. It's much cheaper to not hang it at say 550 ft. The deeper you hang it... more pipe, more wire, bigger pump for the added head.
I had to drill a well 4 years ago because my 100 year old hand dug was not keeping up. At 740' the expense is astronomical. I was waffling on cost but the driller convinced me to go with a freq drive. I have not regretted it one bit and when you observe it in operation it is understandable how it works to prolong pump life and eliminate a lot of issues. My pump is set at 470' because the water came in at 740' but the pump at 470' is still 100' below water level. With an estimated flow of 200 gallon there was no need to keep stacking up pipe and wire. $47000 later I am the first of 5 generations on the farm that has all the water I can pump without worrying about the well running dry.
Ours was put in 2 years ago. $18,000. 3 wire but not 3 phase. We get sulfur in our water here so we use the old air over water tank to help reduce sulfur smell. No bladder. Having to use a tank kind of negates the 3 phase frequency drive in my case.
