They might be giants... Was the switch located up high to keep it out of the spring floods? Or were they trying to save wire, make a short run? Or was the floor dug out to make the room deeper after the switch was installed?
------------- Max Charleston SC On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 8:34 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > IIRC I've already told you guys about our plans to rebuild the house up > north. We just returned from a 2 week trip up there. On this trip I wanted > to spend time evaluating the house and making a plan of attack. One of the > things I looked at was the water system. > https://photos.app.goo.gl/UPi2hLpSjBRTs65U6That's the pump and pressure > tank. That pump is at least 40 years old, maybe more: > https://photos.app.goo.gl/zyNUxCMYGi4eTMnv7 > https://photos.app.goo.gl/6KqRFghXQA2DUe5P9This is the electric that > controls the pump, the one that actually runs the pump is the rear one, the > front one is the pump for the cistern. The "soft water system" as the > previous owner says. That system is all disconnected and hasn't been used > in years. > It's hard to tell from the picture but the switch is about 8 FEET off the > ground. I can just reach it if I stand on the platform the pump is on. You > can also see that the switched being used is nestled right in the pipes... > Obviously a stupid location. > I'd like to move the whole dang thing down about 4 feet and out from the > wall about 2 feet which would put it about 2 feet above the pump and maybe > a foot in front of it. Do any of you geniuses see a reason I shouldn't? I'm > going to eliminate the soft water wiring entirely, we don't need it... > The pump works, in the third picture its turned off but I pushed the lever > up and the pump started. It built about 55# of pressure and shut off. When > the pressure gets down to about 10# it turns back on. We've got another > pump so if/when this one fails I can just swap over. It's loud but I can't > complain about it otherwise... > -Curt > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
