We had a thunderstorm followed by power outage last night, this morning I went to use the water and it slowly went dead.
I began by inspecting the pressure tank and pressure control switch, then found the outside water pump breaker was tripped, upon resetting the water was back on!
But wait, after about 1-2 minutes of use there was a small "POP" and smoke from the control switch and the breaker tripped again.
It seems now that every time the water pump kicks in I've got a 50/50 shot of the circuit breaker blowing. I'm not sure what to do now, I don't want to keep resetting my pump breaker, we really didn't get that much rain so I assume it was the breaker going bad, but the pop and smoke at the control switch has me confused. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!