Quote Originally Posted by swreeder View Post
...Also the neighbor down the street tried to fill his pool from the well and killed the pump. ...
I did this too, only to find out I just tripped the overloads in the pump control box. I had inadvertently pumped my 40K gal pool down about 4 feet when I left the filter valve is waste and went to Lowes. The timer turned on the pump and, a couple of hours later, pool was way low. I turned on 4 water hoses and had them going into the pool. About an hour later, NONE of them were running. Come to find out, pump was turning on and off rather quickly as tank depressurized due to the 4 hoses. Once I figured out it was the overloads and not a burned up pump (whew), I came straight off the well head with a 1-1/4 inch PVC fitting, some 1-1/4 inch PVC pipe and my vacuuming hose and filled the pool in short order. Because I bypassed the tank, it never re-pressurized and the pump never cut off until I stopped it manually with the pressure switch. Since the pressure was going to be low due to the big open end of the hose, all I did was press fit the PVC pipe together and, it didn't leak. It pulled it back apart when I was finished and saved it for another day.