Well, my water is comming out of the well at 2.5 gpm using a 10gpm 220v pump! I have no presure on that 2.5gpm either.
Replacing the pump if needed is going to cost about $900!
The well when drilled was 300' or more and the pump is supposed to be 40' off the bottom but supposedly 297' down. That does not add up, 40' mistake somewhere!
The water at that time was supposed to be 100' below the surface, but I don't know where it is now. And the well had a 20gpm capacity, lots of water then!
So figuring the above info and hoping like heck the well did not drop so low in the last 6 yrs as to cause the present problem, what are my options for pumping water other than a 220v pump? My biggest reason for not going off grid soon!
Open to lots of suggestions but keep in mind I don't have much money to spend!
Will be hard enough finding the $900 to have a normal pump installed, so I can't get like a $4,000 wind pumper for certain!
I would like to have a wind pumper though :)
I have a Aims 5k inverter with a 10k surge capacity as claimed by the manufacturer.
That plus the little UPS inverters for the computers should run my house fine. Need more batteries and a way to charge em, no problem putting up wind gennies just haven't got em done yet. And I have lots of car and lawnmower engines, I'll be using a few for gennies and other stuff on producer gas, woods not a problem either. ANd have other plans too.
Only real problem is getting the water out of that little 6" hole!!!
