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Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: MonMotha on February 09, 2009, 01:15:25 am ---It does call it kW, but 1.9kW for a 1HP motor just seems wrong. It's one of those intuitive "this doesn't feel right" type numbers, and it screams VA at me, especially after seeing the ratings plate for the pump motor.
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I absolutely agree that it definitely jumped out and screamed "something ain't right".
I'll probably pull the pump now that it's warming up a bit to check it out. I'm gonna run it for a minute and take a reading out of the well too just to have something else to look at.
--- Quote from: MonMotha on February 09, 2009, 01:15:25 am ---Who knows, maybe it's just a terribly inefficient motor, and they expect it to be cooled by being in the ground or something like that. Not like it runs often enough to justify a highly efficient one. It doesn't claim to be designed to any major standards on the plate, and I cannot find further data on the internet, so I can't use that for comparison.
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Just to be clear..... this is a submersible pump, so it's litterely IN the water, which is also it's cooling. (I'm sure you understand that, but others may not)
Here's a tad bit of information on them:http://www.waterace.com/well_1.html
Nothing really too terribly technical in the manual though.
They're not the top of the line for sure, but still cost a penny or two.
--- Quote from: MonMotha on February 09, 2009, 01:15:25 am ---I would just drop all this as it's somewhat nitty gritty, but it's really the only major thing I saw you post that seemed "weird" or major to me other than your use of electric resistance heat.
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Yes, the heating was indeed a less than desirable showing of usage. Kinda shocked me initially because we did the AC first and I thought "well, that doesn't seem too bad" and then we did the heater and was speechless. So yeah, gonna check into something else for that.
We do have a wood burner stove to supplement as well...... but trying to get three teenagers to realize that it requires actual work is near impossible. (saved our tails during the ice storm last year though)
--- Quote from: MonMotha on February 09, 2009, 01:15:25 am ---I'd suggest looking into geothermal options if you plan on keeping the property for a long time.
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We've contemplated looking into some of the "alternative" methods as we don't plan on going anywhere. We were just gonna get the house payed down before jumping into any of that.
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