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Applications / My setup is a bit different
« on: May 13, 2020, 01:15:29 PM »
I've got a 3hp deep well (pump set at 785 ft) pumping about 10gpm, and after burning a start winding after 7 years I decided that it wasn't a good idea to be cycling the pump to pressurize an 86 gallon tank, especially when pulling and replacing the pump is a $4000 operation. I installed a 1500 gallon reservoir with float control, and now my pump runs a fill cycle only once every 3-4 days during low use periods and once a day, if that, when I'm irrigating. My well discharge is 1 1/4 inch and is fed into a fitting near the bottom of my partly buried (freeze protection) reservoir tank. There is a Tee tapping that line and a 1 inch suction line to an MQ3-35 in my wellhouse, with a 1 inch discharge to my domestic system and sprinklers. This has worked just fine for 7 years, but I am well aware that, even if nothing goes wrong with the pump itself, that the electronics on the circuit board are likely to fail at anytime. I'm considering replacing the MQ with a small pressure tank, Grundfos JP07 jet pump and CSV, but I am concerned about the CSV back pressure to that Tee on the well pump discharge, and what effect that will have (if any) on the well pump if it is filling the tank while the jet is running. The only check valves in the system are at the well pump. Thanks in advance.

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