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Gerry101
Hi.
I'm not a plumber so hope i can provide you with enough info.
Appreciate anyone who can advise.
Trying to keep this as simple as possible.....it's a query as to whether something inherently will work or not.
I live on a farm.
We are not on mains water. We are gravity fed from a local reservoir. I think it's termed a rural connection.
So this feed goes into tank from which the rest of the farm takes water via onward tanks and pumps i don't need to go into here. The reason why i don't think i need to go into it is because we have to replace our tanks due to general dilapidation, and my question refers to a specific part of a solution proposed by a local civils firm.
So if we were to replace this source/supply tank with a new one, and have a pump submerged in that tank which engages when it senses a drop in pressure on the onwards supply, would such an arrangement work if the onward supply pipes from this tank to, for example, the tank in the loft of our house, terminated with a simple ballcock?
You see currently we have a float switch in our loft tanks, but these need wiring back to the pump so that the pump knows when to kick in or not. Given that we've got to replace everything, and the issues we've had in the past with failing float switches and dodgy farm electrics, i'm keen for a simpler solution, and one that might be more cost effective.
Using a ballcock in the loft tank sounds a lot simpler (and less prone to failure), but the problem with a ballcock is that the flow is so low initially, when the ballcock starts to drop, that if you've got a pressure sensitive pump in the source/supply tank waiting for that drop in pressure, i can envisage a situation where the pump is perpetually going on and off all the time due to the fact that a ballcock doesn't allow much water through when it just starts to drop. But does this even matter? Perhaps pumps are designed these days so that they don't care if they're going on and off the whole time...or maybe there's something else out there which overcomes this sort of problem.
Sorry if my language is not the best, and hopefully you can understand what i'm going on about but like i said, i'm no plumber...:0).
Cheers guys for any input.
I'm not a plumber so hope i can provide you with enough info.
Appreciate anyone who can advise.
Trying to keep this as simple as possible.....it's a query as to whether something inherently will work or not.
I live on a farm.
We are not on mains water. We are gravity fed from a local reservoir. I think it's termed a rural connection.
So this feed goes into tank from which the rest of the farm takes water via onward tanks and pumps i don't need to go into here. The reason why i don't think i need to go into it is because we have to replace our tanks due to general dilapidation, and my question refers to a specific part of a solution proposed by a local civils firm.
So if we were to replace this source/supply tank with a new one, and have a pump submerged in that tank which engages when it senses a drop in pressure on the onwards supply, would such an arrangement work if the onward supply pipes from this tank to, for example, the tank in the loft of our house, terminated with a simple ballcock?
You see currently we have a float switch in our loft tanks, but these need wiring back to the pump so that the pump knows when to kick in or not. Given that we've got to replace everything, and the issues we've had in the past with failing float switches and dodgy farm electrics, i'm keen for a simpler solution, and one that might be more cost effective.
Using a ballcock in the loft tank sounds a lot simpler (and less prone to failure), but the problem with a ballcock is that the flow is so low initially, when the ballcock starts to drop, that if you've got a pressure sensitive pump in the source/supply tank waiting for that drop in pressure, i can envisage a situation where the pump is perpetually going on and off all the time due to the fact that a ballcock doesn't allow much water through when it just starts to drop. But does this even matter? Perhaps pumps are designed these days so that they don't care if they're going on and off the whole time...or maybe there's something else out there which overcomes this sort of problem.
Sorry if my language is not the best, and hopefully you can understand what i'm going on about but like i said, i'm no plumber...:0).
Cheers guys for any input.