Does anyone know about water pumps?
Im trying to increase the pressure in my house a bit so i put it up to 50psi and i checked it with a tire gauge the way it says on the tank by dissconecting the power and opening a faucet until all the water runs out but it seems no matter what i have the pressure set to the tire gauge always reads about 25 psi and the chart on the tanks says it should be 38 for 50 psi
Im confused
I guess its fine if i go by this chart on the tank but i dont know why it doesnt change when i adjust it
I assume im not understanding something
wait did you check WATER pressure with an AIR pressure gauge?
uhm you cannot do that. you cannot measure water pressure with air pressure tools. you know air compresses water doesnt. you wont get the same results.
get a water pressure gauge you can check it with.
goddamn people are frickin stupid on here
Its a tank full of air that pressurizes the water
Please get out of my thread
its a public thread and I will post whatever I want.
He said please
frickoff newbie
Are you a bot?
>goddamn people are frickin stupid on here
the ironing
moron alert
Are you fricking with the precharge or are you adjusting the electric pressure switch? If you want to increase pressure you adjust those nuts on the springs in your pressure switch. Google it.
Dunning Kruger Effect is real.
>no matter what i have the pressure set to the tire gauge always reads about 25 psi and the chart on the tanks says it should be 38 for 50 psi
If "the pressure set to" is referring to pic related then that does not change the pre-charge pressure you read at the tire valve; that mechanism controls the cut-in and cut-out pressures for your pump, such as 40 and 60 on the chart which corresponds to pre-charge 38 psi.
when you turn off the pump and open a faucet until the flow stops you have removed the pressure that your pump creates and is controlled by pic related. at that point you can measure the pre-charge pressure which is the air inside a bladder inside the tank which you have to fill with a tire pump attached to the tire valve. This is how you increase the 25 psi to the desired level which should be 2 psi below your pump minimum cutoff level. If you have trouble getting a correct pre-charge psi your bladder might be leaking.
If this excellent post hasn't cleared up your confusion you need to hire a plumber or well man to come out and do it.
>I need to increase water pressure
>inflates accumulator diaphragm
my frickin sides
This.
Also heads up OP, my well pump came with a pressure sensor and the well guy was supposed to bypass it but forgot.
It was fun having low water pressure for a few months.
Ah thank you fren!!
Somehow i was missing the step where you inflate the air tank manually
I just put the pressure back down until i can get a hand pump and do it properly
check the water pressure at one of your faucets. A lot of times "low pressure" complaints are actually a result of restrictive or undersized plumbing in the house. I've had a house that had ~80psi at the faucet but you still couldn't get a decent shower because the galvanized water supply pipes under the house had so much internal corrosion buildup
Thanks man
The pressure really isnt that bad, lots of nice copper pipes
I just got this house and i never had a well before so at first i just kind of stayed away from learning about it until the power went out and i had to figure out how to get it back on and ended up monkeying with it kind of in a panic and the pressure seemed a bit lower ever since then
I was cleaning out my car and found the pressure gauge and decided it was good time to learn about my water system
Its at 50/30 now and noticably better
Next time i go out ill get a hand pump to top it up and it should be good and ill stop fussing over it