Okay my well water pump keeps turning on and off, i can hear it click on and off. Then the water stops running completely! What is wrong with it?? It has been doing this since last night.
You have what is called a waterlogged pump system. As Gordon said, all in one sentence, most domestic water pump systems operate by using the water they pull up from the ground to compress the air that's already in the resevoir tank either in your basement or back room. The standard working pressure limits are 20 lbs. on/40 lbs. off, or 30 lbs. on/50 lbs. off. The water is pumped in until the air is compressed to 40 psi., then the pressure switch shuts it down. When you draw water off by turning on a tap somewhere in the home and it eventually gets down to 20 or 30 lbs, whichever your system is set on, the switch calls for more pressure and the pump kicks back on. In older resevoir systems where air and water met, under pressure, eventually the air is absorbed by the pressure until there's no room left for air to be pressurized and the pump tank becomes waterlogged. If you have what is called a bladder tank, there is supposed to be a rubber film stretched across the tank somewhere near the middle to keep the air and the water separated, If that bladder bursts for whatever reason, eventually, you wind up with a more expensive older style water resevoir tank. You can repressurize these tanks, by turning off the electricity to the pump and turning on the house taps. Let them run a good long time, then shut them off, put some air back in the tank via the fixture on top, close everything back up and turn on the system. Let it prime itself and pressurize itself, it should be close to being right, if not right on. Or you can have a new tank installed.
Because water does not compress and air does when working properly your storage tank is largely filled with air until water coming in compresses it to around 60 psi then switch cuts out pump and then as it is used water drops pressure to around 30 psi then pump switch cuts in.. so it sounds like you have all water and no air in your tank making pressure shoot up immediately to 60 then shut off then drop to 30 then turn on all with in seconds or minutes whatever you have. Could be couple reasons as stated above tank should have air pressure even if it has no water in it
mine did that and it needed a new captive air tank, I think they call it the part that sits in your house and fills with water. they go bad, unfortunately there is always a pretty price tag for that kind of work.
If it goes on and off rapidly, the tank has no air. If it is a bladder type tank, the tank/bladder is shot. Do not let it continue to flip on and off as this will ruin the pump. Shut it off until you get a new tank.
The radiator surely holds the water/coolant and the pump circulates the mixture in the process the engine. Upon returning to the radiator, the water is cooled from air passing in the process the fins of the radiator. The pumps activity is to bypass the mixture to verify that the nice and comfy water to sit down back subsequently, the engine is then cooled.
