Pond Pump: How to Size One and Keep It Running
A pond pump is the only pump most people buy that is expected to run every hour of every day for years, in dirty water, with leaves going into it. That duty is nothing like a well pump’s,…
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How to Prime a Well Pump (and Why It Loses Prime)
A pump that spins without moving water is not broken. It is almost always empty, and five gallons of water fixes it. Priming takes ten minutes. Knowing why the prime went missing in the first place is what…
Read MorePump Cavitation: Causes, Sounds and How to Stop It
If a pump sounds like it is passing gravel, it is not passing gravel. It is destroying itself, and it will keep going until someone changes the suction side. Cavitation is the most misdiagnosed failure in pumping, mostly…
Read MoreFoot Valve: What It Does and Why Your Pump Loses Prime
A pump that loses its prime overnight is rarely a bad pump. It is usually a two dollar flap sitting twenty feet underwater. The foot valve is the least glamorous part of a suction system and the one…
Read MoreHow to Read a Pump Curve: Head, Flow and BEP
Two pumps carry the same horsepower on the box. One moves twice the water in your system. The curve is where that difference is written down, and almost nobody reads it. It takes about five minutes to learn…
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