AgroVenturesPeru
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I'm getting tired of this setup:
I went to change the filter for our rainwater tank yesterday and by swapping the old filter for the new one, we had to re calibrate the entire pressure switch. The simple act of swapping out a filter turned into an entire afternoon wasted. The pressure switch is on its way out, and the pressure gauge is half full of water. The pressure switch pretty much decides the extent to which it can be modified. Would be better perhaps to have something digital where you could just type in the numbers that you want as far as psi. This analog design with metal springs has already started to rust. Yesterday we had a nice range of 10-32psi, and now that I changed the filter for the rainwater tank, the pressure switch has decided it's only going to do about a 20-32psi range. No amount of fiddling with a wrench can get the range any wider than that. Trying small adjustments to get it any higher, makes it so the pump never shuts off. The pump is basically physically incapable of getting pressure above 32-34psi. The writing is on the wall. If we don't get proactive and do something now, at some point we will be without plumbing. We're also tired of having to get out the bike pump every 6 months to purge the pressure tank.
Are there other systems that are less finnicky? It was suggested before to get a bigger pressure tank, which is a fine suggestion. However, I'm wondering if there might be a completely different design based on different components?
How about some sort of all-in-one component that combines the pump, switch, gauge and tank? Or maybe that's not recommended, because you can't swap out individual components when something goes wrong?
What is this Setup Called?
We had someone set this up in Peru, and it seems to be acting up. This is the setup to pump water from our rainwater storage tank to the plumbing of the house everytime we open a tap. I don't know what it's called in English, and I'm not sure in Spanish either. The blue pump is called a bomba...
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I went to change the filter for our rainwater tank yesterday and by swapping the old filter for the new one, we had to re calibrate the entire pressure switch. The simple act of swapping out a filter turned into an entire afternoon wasted. The pressure switch is on its way out, and the pressure gauge is half full of water. The pressure switch pretty much decides the extent to which it can be modified. Would be better perhaps to have something digital where you could just type in the numbers that you want as far as psi. This analog design with metal springs has already started to rust. Yesterday we had a nice range of 10-32psi, and now that I changed the filter for the rainwater tank, the pressure switch has decided it's only going to do about a 20-32psi range. No amount of fiddling with a wrench can get the range any wider than that. Trying small adjustments to get it any higher, makes it so the pump never shuts off. The pump is basically physically incapable of getting pressure above 32-34psi. The writing is on the wall. If we don't get proactive and do something now, at some point we will be without plumbing. We're also tired of having to get out the bike pump every 6 months to purge the pressure tank.
Are there other systems that are less finnicky? It was suggested before to get a bigger pressure tank, which is a fine suggestion. However, I'm wondering if there might be a completely different design based on different components?
How about some sort of all-in-one component that combines the pump, switch, gauge and tank? Or maybe that's not recommended, because you can't swap out individual components when something goes wrong?