One day we forgot to turnoff the faucet while watering the lawn and therefore emptied out the well.
After this our well troll 202 seems to have lost all its pressure and therefore we are not getting any water pumped out of the well.

It has the gauge and square D pumptrol.

I have tried to do some research to find an answer online with no luck. Are there are any basics steps I could do, so as to trouble shoot the problem. What type of equipment would I need to do this myself? Do I need to call in a professional to look at the problem.

Any suggestions, is greatly appreciated.

Regards

--Mark

speedball1

it depends on where your check valve's located as to how much water to prime your pump. if the check valve's located near the pump on the suction line then it's faulty and letting the water go back down into the well. if it's located on the well point then you have over 200 feet on pipe to fill untill the impeller cage's full enough to prime the pump. Do you know the location of the check valve? regards, Tom

mdcosta

Tom, thanks for replying.
There are couple of valve's and I am not sure which is the check valve. both the valves are not on the suction line i.e. the pipe that goes down to the well. The setup is a T-shaped pipe with the pressure guage on the intersection and square d shuton/off switch on the vertical section of the pipe that leads into the pressure tank.
I can hear the water fill up into the pressure tank when I prime the tank, but when I open the tap there is just a trickle of water.

Regards,

--Mark

jlisenbe

Unhook from the pressure tank and you can get certain of what kind of flow you have. My well installer never hooked up to the pressure tank until the pump had run for some time and he was sure the pump was good. My pump goes to the pressure tank through a section of 1 inch flexible plastic pipe which can easily be removed by taking off pipe clamps. That's always struck me as a good idea.

speedball1

Mark, What's the control cut in and cut out poiunts? What's the pressure set at on the bladder tank? regards, Tom

mdcosta

Tom, the cut in is set @ 30 psi @ cut out @ 50 psi. this is what I see on the outside of the square D switch. I am not sure how to actually find what this has been set at. The pressure set on the bladder tank is 28 psi.

In the setup that I have, I do not have access to the pump. The pressure tank is in the basement and the pump is located somewhere in the well.

Thank you

Regards

--Mark

Flying Blue Eagle

i see you already know to try what i was going to suggest to start with.

jlisenbe

OK, I don't have a lot of experience with jet pumps, but I don't see how you can prime the pump if you don't have access to it since it is "somewhere in the well". Jet pumps I have seen are above ground and are easily accessible. Am I missing something here?

mdcosta

The way I have primed the pump is to connect the main city water line to the well system.
The water then enters all the pipes, the pressure tank (basement) and down to where the pump is located.

The jet pump is what I call the pressure tank and there is a separate pump that pumps the water into the pressure tank. I am new to all of this and I am learning as I go. Maybe I am wrong in thinking that there is a pump in the well that pumps the water up into the pressure tank.



thanks for replying

regards

--Mark

jlisenbe

I think, from what you have written, that you are dealing with a submerged pump. This site has a pretty good discussion of wells and pump types.

Water Well Pumping, Well Pump Diagram, Well Pump Prices

As you will see from the diagrams, a jet pump is located above ground. A submersible pump is in the well shaft, below (hopefully!) the water table. It does not need to be primed. It either pumps or it doesn't.