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I notice there are several companies now that claim they have a valve that works like a Cycle Stop Valve.  Is ther any difference?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Make a Water Tower seem taller
« on: February 04, 2007, 01:36:07 PM »
The Water Tower is too short so the pressure is too low.  Is there anyway a CSV can boost the pressure without having to make the Tower taller?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Bypass or Remove a Water Tower using CSV
« on: February 04, 2007, 01:33:12 PM »
Can a CSV help if there is a hole in the Water Tower or it needs to taken out of line for cleaning and painting?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / CSV with Diesel or Gas Powered Pump
« on: February 04, 2007, 01:30:07 PM »
Can I use a Cycle Stop Valve on a pump with a Diesel or Gas Powered engine?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Mono Drive or Sub Drive
« on: February 04, 2007, 09:28:10 AM »
How does a Franklin Mono Drive or Sub Drive compare to a CSV and are they any different than other VFD pump systems?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Pump Tec
« on: February 02, 2007, 10:37:02 AM »
How do I make my Pump Tec work with a Cycle Stop Valve?  Any time I am using small amounts of water, the Pump Tec thinks my well is out of water and shuts my pump off.  This also happens when the pressure tank is filling up.

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Pump for Heat Pump has high electric bill
« on: January 24, 2007, 10:52:11 AM »
I have an open loop Ground Water Heat Pump.  I have a 1HP submersible well pump that feeds the heat pump and my house.  The well pump cycles on and off about 19 times per hour for the heat pump and the electric bill for just the well is over $80.00 per month.  Will a Cycle Stop Valve reduce the electric bill?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Broken Water Lines at a Dairy
« on: January 24, 2007, 10:42:33 AM »
Dear Sonny Lester.  Someone at your office said you could help me.  I have a dairy in north Texas with 3,000 head of cattle.  I have several water wells that feed a large storage tank behind the dairy.  There are two booster pumps which draw water from the storage tank and supply about 60 PSI to the dairy.  I used to have a big pressure tank but, the pumps would cycle on and off all the time, which would cause a 6" underground line to break on a regular basis.  The cycling also caused the motor starters and pressure switches to burn up at least once per year.  Last year a salesman talked me into buying two Square D Variable Frequency Drives.  We installed the drives and hauled off the old rusty pressure tank.  Now the VFD's are causing the underground pipe to break more often than the cycling pumps did.  When we turn off water the VFD doesn't slow down quickly enough, the pressure spikes and pow, another weekend of digging up and fixing the underground line.  Also when we first turn on water the VFD is slow to speed up the motor so, the pressure gets low and the pipes start shaking.  Will a Cycle Stop Valve solve my problem and how would I install it?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Well Driller needs help with 100 GPM pump
« on: January 24, 2007, 10:19:56 AM »
Dear Porky Cutter.  Someone at your office said you could help me.  I have a 100 GPM submersible in a well with 3 big pressure tanks.  This well feeds my house and a restroom at the shop.  The reason I have a 100 GPM pump is that this well is also used to fill my water truck.  When I am filling the water truck at 100 GPM there is no problem.  However, when my wife is watering the yard or using water in the house the pump cycles on and off a lot.  I have to replace the pressure switch often and at least one of the bladder tanks goes bad every year or so.  Would a Cycle Stop Valve help my situation?  If so, what size valve do I need and how would you set it up?

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Dear Mike Washeck.  Someone at your office said you could help me.  I am a pump installer in the Colorado area.  I have been using small variable speed pumps of several different brands for my homeowner customers.  I am tired of the call backs and angry customers.  I cannot tell that these VFD systems are saving any energy.  They would have to be saving a lot of energy to do any good as the systems are not lasting very long before needing replacement.  I am told that your Cycle Stop Valves will do the same thing as a VFD but, is much more dependable.  Are there other pump installers in your area who have had the same problem?  If so, what are they saying about the differences between Cycle Stop Valve and Variable Speed Pumps?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Irrigating From Three Different Pumps
« on: January 24, 2007, 09:50:12 AM »
Dear Dennis Haney.  Someone at your office said you could help me.  I have three pumps in different locations that feed into the same irrigation system.  One is a centrifugal pump, 5 HP DHJ Sta-Rite, that draws water from an irrigation ditch.  Another pump is a 70 GPM 5HP Sta-Rite submersible in a well that is about 80' deep.  The last pump is a 3 HP Goulds  33GS30 submersible also in an 80' deep well.  How can I make these three pumps work together and supply any amount of flow required by the homeowners?  I need at least 50 PSI on the system.  One problem is that the homeowners could open up too much water.  If pressure from the 70 GPM well pump is too low. The pump produces 100 GPM and the well starts making sand.

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Irrigation From a Canal
« on: January 24, 2007, 09:40:32 AM »
Hello Rob Smith.  Someone at your office said you could help me out.  I have an irrigation district that draws water from a canal.  We have hundreds of centrifugal pumps sucking water from the canal and sending it to individual irrigation systems.  We have been using huge pressure tanks to reduce the cycling.  These systems are getting old and the pressure tanks are springing a few leaks.  Can I use a Cycle Stop Valve on these type systems?  If so, then what size pressure tank do I need to make it work?  Replacing hundreds of these huge pressure tanks is going to be very expensive and we are looking for an alternative.

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There is a well field in Georgia that has 50 wells scattered throughout the area.  They have been using Goulds Aquavar variable speed drives to control these pumps for about 2 years.  At low flow rates the VFD continually ramps the pumps up and down.  This is causing motors, pumps. and the Aquavars themselves to fail.  They have been moving the Aquavars that are still working from wells with bad pumps to wells with pumps that are still good.   Can they use a Cycle Stop Valve to replace these Aquavars?  If so then how do they set up Cycle Stop Valves to control 50 different wells?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Two Pumps in the same well
« on: January 24, 2007, 09:15:24 AM »
I have a well that supplies water to a dormitory for college students.  I only have one well with 12" casing and about 400' deep.  The pumping level is about 300' and the static water level is 220'.  My problem is that most of the time the dormitory will be using an average of about 30 GPM but, during peak times could use as much as 400 GPM.  I need to install a pump that will deliver 400 GPM at 70 PSI but, most of the time the dormitory will be using less than 30 GPM.  I know that when controlled with a Cycle Stop Valve it will not hurt my pump to vary the flow from 5 GPM to 400 GPM.  However, this will take a 75 HP submersible which will only drop to a 40 HP load when restricted with the CSV.  Is there anyway I can get a second pump to fit in this same well so I could be using a 7.5 HP pump for low flow and still be able to use the 75 HP when needed?

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Pumps, Wells, Tanks, Controls / Water Hammer on Community Water System
« on: January 24, 2007, 09:04:20 AM »
Hello Ron Kyger.  I talked to someone at your office and they said you could help me.  I have a 5 HP well pump that supplies water to about a dozen homes.  Every time the pump starts or stops I get a water hammer throughout the entire system.  How can I fix the problem?

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