Well Mystery Explained

[RobertN]

I had a little green frog get in an unplugged hole on the pressure switch. Froggie suicide... Gummed up the contacts. Wound up just replacing the pressure switch. And making sure all covers/plugs were in place.

Yep, one time I had a bunch of earwigs crawl up into the pressure switch and foul the contacts. Learned to plug the holes after that. I only have to call the service guy if it's something down in the hole. I'm not equipped to handle that.

 

[RobertN]

We had similar happen a couple years ago, even with the snubber/shock absorbers. We were due fo a new pump though too. Wires fixed made a big difference! New pump did to, but it wouldn't have worked without the wires being fixed.

We are about 10 miles as a crow flies from Troutsqueezer I think. Our well is 450', with pump at 425'... and full of iron.

What do you suppose was discovered? About 40 feet above the pump, just about at water line, both the supply wires were chaffed and bare. Under some conditions, they might touch, but under any conditions power could certainly "leak". Now we all know that deep pumps give a jump (twist) when they start up. thats why the snubbers, There was no heavy duty motor to casing snubber as is common use now, in the old install, just the poly wire guides.

 

[PILOON]

good story. it's like that everywhere.

i work in an electronics oriented job many nights. I work around other engineers. many people will tag and mark equipment as bad and leave it for me to fix. 75% of the equipment i repair by simply taking the 'BAD' tag of fit.
IE.. all the other engineers have 0-nil diagnostic capability...

L.O.L.
A client, brilliant electrical eng, consults for major hydro elect project world wide asked me why I was installing a second box above the room switches, also why the upper box had red wires and the lower used white.
Go figure.

Another eng who we called 'Mr good enough' did a well plumbing job that you could not believe.
Total mish mash that had every size pipe from 1/2 - 2" + PVC+ABS in any order and if it did not fit electrical tape was the gasket, clamps ranged from real to twisted coat hangers. The setup leaked so badly that he had 2 pumps on line, one to keep things primed and the second for pressure.
Naturally the iron pipes were all clogged from rust.
Oh, and he was a petroleum eng at Shell!

 

[Soundguy]

sweet!

 

[npalen]

Someone mentioned hydro fracking. What is the process and what does it accomplish? My lawn and garden irrigation well has been in service since '76 and puts out about 10-12 gpm depending on how dry the year is. It's 31' depth and 20' to water using a 1/2 HP submersible in 5"pvc casing. I could use another 5 or so gpm output cabability so my question about fracking. I've heard of shooting a rifle down into the well so the concussion opens up clogged inlet holes. Old wives tale?