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Title: Pressure Switches
Post by: Spursboy1972 on April 17, 2008, 07:41:52 pm
Had to have a new roll of microbore today as the inner had come away form the outer. Gutted!!!

Pirtek told me that I may be well advised to fit a pressure switch as one of the causes of this happeneing is rolling the hose back up with pressured water in it. In the long term it is not good for the hose?

Does anyone have these fitted?
Are they worthwhile?
How easy to fit?
Where to get them?


Tony
Title: Re: Pressure Switches
Post by: Nathanael Jones on April 17, 2008, 07:48:17 pm
Isn't there one built in to your pump?
Title: Re: Pressure Switches
Post by: Alex Gardiner on April 17, 2008, 10:12:03 pm
I nearly always disconnect the hose reel before reeling the microbore back in.  One of the reasons I do this is it allows some of the water to drain out of the hose reel so that when I lift it back in the vehicle, water doesn't drip out of it.  In light of the above thought, it also allows you to reel back in unpressurized microbore. 

You should already have a pressure switch build into your pump as Nathanael mentioned but unless you disconnect the hose from the source of the pressurized water, it will naturally stay pressurized.

What make of microbore is it?
Title: Re: Pressure Switches
Post by: Wayne Thomas on April 17, 2008, 10:27:10 pm
You could connect your hose (from unwound reel) to a length of hose that returns to your tank.
That way you release the pressure of water in your hosereel straight back to the tank before winding the reel back in.
Title: Re: Pressure Switches
Post by: Wayne Thomas on April 17, 2008, 10:31:05 pm
Talking of pressure switches. I've started hitting yet another shureflow pump which I only bought back in Nov 07. Getting cheesed off with shureflow pumps sticking all the time so I want to go back to a Flojet pump.
Question is:
Can I cut the pressure switch lead on the flojet pump and wire it in to my varistream in the same way as a shureflow pump ?????????????
Title: Re: Pressure Switches
Post by: craig21t on April 17, 2008, 11:23:45 pm
yed
Title: Re: Pressure Switches
Post by: Wayne Thomas on April 17, 2008, 11:26:30 pm
Quote from: craig21t on April 17, 2008, 11:23:45 pm
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I'll assume that translates into yes then (finger slipping off the keyboard), thank-you.
Title: Re: Pressure Switches
Post by: Alex Gardiner on April 18, 2008, 07:53:10 am
Another simple option is to turn the pump off and then release the pressure from the stop end of your hose.
Title: Re: Pressure Switches
Post by: Xline Systems on April 18, 2008, 09:00:45 am
Quote from: Wayne Thomas on April 17, 2008, 11:26:30 pm
Quote from: craig21t on April 17, 2008, 11:23:45 pm
yed

I'll assume that translates into yes then (finger slipping off the keyboard), thank-you.
you could always fit a return to tank between your pump and water outlet this will allow the pump to run at one constant speed at all times this has proven to us to prolong the lifetime of our pumps on our systems, all the systems we run with return to tanks fitted to them are still running on origional pumps and pressure switches.