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  • Nov 25, 2006, 12:29 PM
    shon
    Bladder tank on well system
    Hello, thank you for attempting to help. I have a little water pressure in the morning, but after running the dish washer I have just a trickle. I have looked at the gauge at my tank and I can't get above 15 psi. I have also turned the power of to the submersival pump, turned the nearest faucet on to drain the tank, added air, but still not enough pressure. I also can't get a tire gauge to show a reading when I check pessure on my bladder tank HELP!
  • Nov 25, 2006, 12:47 PM
    speedball1
    Do you have a pump control box like the image I put up? The settings might need to be set up to give you more pressure. Adding more air to the bladder tank will not give you more pressure. The correct setting for a bladder tank is 2 PSI under the cut in PSI setting on the control box. In other words, if your control box is set at 20 cut in/40 cut out your tank should have 18 PSI when you put a tire gagte on the snifter valve.
    However, before you set the bladder tank pressure the control box must be set properly. Yours sounds like it my be faulty if no one has reset the pressure settings. If you're going to buy another get a 30/50 PSI control box and bleed the pressure down and set the bladder tank at 28 PSI.
    Good luck, Tom

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