Well Pumps

Before you buy a generator for your well, you need to know one thing that many homeowners never learned: what kind of pump you actually have. A jet pump and a submersible pump both move water from your well to your house, but they sit in different places, can run on different voltages, and behave … Read more

If you are on a well, a generator that cannot power your well pump is only half a plan. Most well pumps are hardwired into your electrical panel and run on 240 volts, which means you cannot just plug them into a generator. The safe, code-compliant solution is a manual transfer switch, which lets you … Read more

How to Manually Reprime a Well Pump After an Extended Power Outage The power is back, the pump runs, and nothing comes out of the tap. Or the pump hums and the pressure gauge sits at zero. If your pump has lost its prime, it is pulling air instead of water, and it will not … Read more

You start the generator, switch on the well pump circuit, and the generator’s breaker trips or the engine bogs down and quits. It is frustrating, especially when the generator looks big enough on paper. In almost every case, the cause is a mismatch between the pump’s startup surge and what the generator can deliver, not … Read more

Power’s back on, but your well pump won’t kick back in — no water pressure, or the pump runs but nothing comes out of the tap. This is a common (and fixable) post-outage issue, and it’s rarely a sign the pump itself has failed. Step 1: Check the Pressure Switch Most well pumps are controlled … Read more

If you’re on well water, a power outage doesn’t just mean no lights — it means no water at all. No showers, no toilets, no way to fight a fire if one starts. The good news is that most residential well pumps can be run on a mid-sized portable generator, as long as you account … Read more