{"id":483,"date":"2023-01-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2023-01-24T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T23:15:20","slug":"every-well-pump-requires-a-well-pump-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/plumbing-service\/every-well-pump-requires-a-well-pump-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Well Pump Requires a Well Pump Controller!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/checkmark.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/checkmark-300x276.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/checkmark-300x276.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/checkmark-1024x942.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/checkmark-768x707.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/checkmark-1536x1413.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/checkmark.jpeg 1565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The more you do your research into plumbing equipment, the more confusing everything gets, right? It&#8217;s not by design: real plumbing work is more like a science than a business. In order to fully bring water to your home, you&#8217;ll need both a well pump, several other components, and a pump control box that is in charge of the speed and output of the water that&#8217;s stored in your pump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we&#8217;d like to talk a bit about how a well pump works and why you might want to call our team for specialized service. This is way more complicated than just digging a well in the old days. If you want enough water to run when you turn on the faucet or shower in your home, then you&#8217;re going to want a high-tech system that can easily measure the output and ability of your well pump. With us, your <a href=\"\/well-pumps\/controllers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"well pump controller in Olympia, WA\">well pump controller in Olympia, WA<\/a> will be in great shape for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2>What the Pump Controller Does<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we can talk to you about the necessity of a pump controller for any well pump system, we need to talk about how it works in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pump controller, also known as a <em>pump control box<\/em>, is a component of the well system that protects the pump from low or high voltage, water level changes, clogged screens, malfunctions, and other things. It&#8217;s like the &#8220;brain&#8221; of your well pump system and it&#8217;s pretty much a requirement if you want your well to operate safely and effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the old days, wells used to be manually operated, which was a total pain. You couldn&#8217;t get easy access to water in your home because the technology just wasn&#8217;t there. And more often then not, homes that did have access to freshwater from a well were rife with problems since there was no technology to monitor the speed and pressure of the water, as well as other component malfunctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are just a few things that used to (and still do) go wrong with wells that don&#8217;t have control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>What Can Go Wrong<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>How is your well supposed to know how much water is needed in your home? For instance, when you turn on a faucet, that&#8217;s going to require a different amount of water and pressure than turning on the shower or a laundry machine. And, if you turn them all on at once, something needs to make sure you don&#8217;t just open access to a massive amount of groundwater that lies below the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pump controller will simply monitor all of this as it happens. It has sensors that stop too much water from reaching your house at too high a speed. It can also measure the voltage needed to pump the water, so you&#8217;ve always got accurate estimates of how the system is working and how much electricity is required to run it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Professional Help Is Here!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We know this all sounds complicated, which is why our team can take care of all of it. It&#8217;s just important that your well pump <em>has <\/em>a controller system in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"\/contact\/send-a-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Contact American Pump and Drilling\">Contact American Pump and Drilling<\/a>&nbsp;to make sure your well pump controller is installed properly.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;d like to talk a bit about how a well pump works, and why you might want to call our team for specialized service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[89,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olypump.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}