Water well question

[montesa]

This.

I cannot understand watering grass, so you can mow it.

Fresh water is the single most precious resource on the planet. Why dump it out on the ground?

I could understand if the irrigation was going to crops of some sort; a garden perhaps. Just for grass? that's city thinking, IMHO.

I’m the same on that. A mowed dead lawn looks fine to me even in the city.

 

[Chuckie]

I’m the same on that. A mowed dead lawn looks fine to me even in the city.

Well for those that absolutely, positively have to have a green lawn

 

[Foxfire5]

Did you check the connections on the pressure switch? Did you check to make sure the pressure bladder has the right amount of air in it? Are you sure there are no leaks somewhere else in your system? I would run the hose off of your tank tee and see if it has strong pressure. It’ll really pump a lot of water if it’s working correctly at all.

You might also check the breaker that’s running the pump. Make sure the wire screw clamps are tight on the breaker.

Then could be too small for the job.

 

[gunnut918]

All seem to be missing him saying that well service company replaced everything. To the problem. Call them back to check their work. Should have done so when installed new parts. A lot goes into right size pump and tank to make these work correctly. Depth of well being a major factor. Again well service company should have done this at the time. Good luck.

 

[dennishoddy]

It’s actually not bad in my neighborhood - none of my neighbors who have wells tapping into the same aquifer have cisterns, and they usually don’t lack for water. The previous owner who had the cistern installed was something of a survivalist.

Our well runs full bore as long as we want to run it and is shallow. The neighbors well is 100 yards closer to the ridge we live on and was limited in the water it would flow. Enough for normal family living but not so much for running multiple yard sprinklers and so on.

 

[dennishoddy]

This.

I cannot understand watering grass, so you can mow it.

Fresh water is the single most precious resource on the planet. Why dump it out on the ground?

I could understand if the irrigation was going to crops of some sort; a garden perhaps. Just for grass? that's city thinking, IMHO.

We have a pretty steep gradient on our property. When it rains hard, the grass is the only thing that keeps the sandy soil in place and prevents erosion so it's in our best interest to keep it growing and healthy.

 

[John6185]

Recently we had a light flickering in the bath and I checked the wiring, changed switches, and rechecked the connections literally several times. I had new LED bulbs that I had just put in and knew they were good. Finally after all my work I took those LED bulbs out and changed them to some regular bulbs I had stored and the flickering stopped. Moral of the story is check the little things before you go indepth on something. I always go for the hard part first and it's usually the simple stuff that is the problem.

 

[dennishoddy]

Recently we had a light flickering in the bath and I checked the wiring, changed switches, and rechecked the connections literally several times. I had new LED bulbs that I had just put in and knew they were good. Finally after all my work I took those LED bulbs out and changed them to some regular bulbs I had stored and the flickering stopped. Moral of the story is check the little things before you go indepth on something. I always go for the hard part first and it's usually the simple stuff that is the problem.

Were those lights in a ceiling fan?

 

[montesa]

Were those lights in a ceiling fan?

I was thinking the same thing. I’ve had that issue. Something about a wattage limiter.

 

[Snattlerake]

Were those lights in a ceiling fan?

LEDs have current diodes that are fragile and burn out causing the flickering. Some have an array of LEDs and several burn out causing the same. Either way, it is an overcurrent causing the shutdown then power up repeatedly.

LEDs are DC powered and are converted via a bridge rectifier.

This is why I will never buy any fixture where the LEDs are nonreplaceable and there are a lot of them out there.