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    Quote Originally Posted by hills View Post
    Yeah ... the blue tanks like the one in your back yard seem to last longer but the plug up with rust where it does a 90 deg if you have a lot of elemental iron in your well water. They seem to clean out pretty good with muriatic acid but you have to be careful.



    Found a nice Amtrol WX -250 on the dump years ago. Carefully cleaned it up and put it back into service. Having such a large tank really cut down on the pump cycles and saved on the electric bill. It's nice when the power goes out too. You have more of a draw down before the tank runs dry.
    At our BC property we had a very large water tank with a snifter valve and that tank was at least 30 years old and still going strong when we moved, those bladder tanks maybe five years tops in this Province.

    I often see small 2 gallon tanks attached to the water pump, and think to myself every time a toilet is flushed that pump fires up and the hydro meter spins, you absolutely right with the larger tank pump cycling is lowered.

    Not many people are aware that when an electric motor starts there's a huge amperage draw.

    Complete article - Here

    Last edited by Smf-retired-user-0043; 04-15-2023 at 08:03 AM.

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