The other day I switched on my sprinkler pump & it made this BZZZZZ noise. Uh-oh! Since the pump was ~23 years old & had a gasket leak last year, I figgered it was locked up / frozen / dead.
So I got a brand new pump, a Flotec FP5162
Went & hooked up the power. Testing 1-2-3...BZZZZ. Ah geez. An electrician bud told me how the wires should read volt-wise...& they looked hokay. WTF?
The only thing between the breaker & the pump was a timer, an Intermatic T101. It was ~10 years old but had been used only ~ once a month. So I bypassed it. And we're pumpy again...yay!
My goof was ASSuming that a timer like this works sorta kinda permanently. Nope.
So I got a brand new pump, a Flotec FP5162
Went & hooked up the power. Testing 1-2-3...BZZZZ. Ah geez. An electrician bud told me how the wires should read volt-wise...& they looked hokay. WTF?
The only thing between the breaker & the pump was a timer, an Intermatic T101. It was ~10 years old but had been used only ~ once a month. So I bypassed it. And we're pumpy again...yay!
My goof was ASSuming that a timer like this works sorta kinda permanently. Nope.