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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Pressure Loss
« on: March 11, 2019, 07:34:08 AM »
I have a Cycle Stop Valves PK1A Pside-Kick Pressure Tank Kit installed. Installed it in the Spring of 2018 and it worked great until this March. Atleast that I have noticed. When I first installed the kit I had trouble getting it to actually hold constant at 50psi with the kitchen tap opened. With the shower running it would hold constant pressure. If running the kitchen sink wide open, (Probably around 1.5-2gpm) the pressure would hold but the pump would just cycle. Originally the pump turned off at 60psi and cut in at 40 psi. The tank was set to 38psi.
Now what happens is the water will run and draw down the tank. The pump does not cut in at 40 but lower now, maybe 38 or so. It cuts out at 55. When taking a shower now you will lose almost all pressure down to a trickle before the pump cuts in. It wont stay at 50 psi but keep slowing building pressure and then cuts out at 55.
I checked the tank pressure but shutting off the power and opening the hose bib till pressure was released. There was still water in the tank but the pressure read 34 or so.
Everything on the pressure switch looks good, contacts are clean and operating well. I did try and increase the cutoff pressure and when doing so the pump still cuts out around 55 but the gauge still showed pressure building to 80psi. Not sure if the pressure gauge was malfunctioning.
My thoughts are that the pump was cycling too much and maybe killing the pump.
I did not install a check valve prior to the CSV so maybe somehow losing prime.
The pressure in the tank is somehow higher than the cut-in pressure setting. Not sure how that happened since no adjustments had been made prior.
Any thoughts?
JOEY A
Now what happens is the water will run and draw down the tank. The pump does not cut in at 40 but lower now, maybe 38 or so. It cuts out at 55. When taking a shower now you will lose almost all pressure down to a trickle before the pump cuts in. It wont stay at 50 psi but keep slowing building pressure and then cuts out at 55.
I checked the tank pressure but shutting off the power and opening the hose bib till pressure was released. There was still water in the tank but the pressure read 34 or so.
Everything on the pressure switch looks good, contacts are clean and operating well. I did try and increase the cutoff pressure and when doing so the pump still cuts out around 55 but the gauge still showed pressure building to 80psi. Not sure if the pressure gauge was malfunctioning.
My thoughts are that the pump was cycling too much and maybe killing the pump.
I did not install a check valve prior to the CSV so maybe somehow losing prime.
The pressure in the tank is somehow higher than the cut-in pressure setting. Not sure how that happened since no adjustments had been made prior.
Any thoughts?
JOEY A