Pressure tanks are an integral part of residential well systems. They come in all shapes, sizes and colors, and in previous articles in this publication, I’ve described them in detail, the different types, their purpose and how to size them.
Thompson Pump & Manufacturing Co. in April graduated 55 attendees from their 23rd annual Pumpology School at their corporate facilities in Port Orange, Fla.
These old Fats Domino lyrics, written for a love song, are apropos for the groundwater industry, especially in this era of changing weather patterns and dropping water tables.
There has been a lot of talk lately about “the cloud”-cloud computing, cloud data storage, etc. So what is this cloud all about and how, if at all, does it apply to the groundwater industry? I decided to do a little snooping, so I visited a company I’d heard about in Las Vegas called Aqua Management Inc. (AMI).
The
simplest method of starting a three-phase pump motor is by closing a contactor
and allowing the motor to start at full voltage, or “across-the-line,” as it is
called.
