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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: markybop on April 16, 2007, 08:53:25 pm

Title: Pump 'cycling'
Post by: markybop on April 16, 2007, 08:53:25 pm

Got the van set up completed today!
and done a quick test,
all was well apart from the pump kept cycling.......
the pressure was kept the same but just wondered
if there was nything i could do to stop it....
will it eventually burn the pump out?????

Title: Re: Pump 'cycling'
Post by: Peter Fogwill on April 16, 2007, 11:42:41 pm

You will burn the pump switch out pretty quickly if you continue to use it like that. 

Where did you get your system?  It should have something to stop the cycling. 

You could put in a bypass, a T at the inlet side of the pump and one at the outlet side linked up and a valve in the middle.  You just open the valve until the pump runs constant.  Or you could use a pump controller.

Peter

Title: Re: Pump 'cycling'
Post by: Sir Squeaky on April 17, 2007, 12:09:10 am

Stick with it a day or so and see what happens.

My pump cycled constantly for the first day, but it doesn't do it at all now, unless I turn the flow down (which I'd like to).