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You have had a very tough week. It seems like the good guys die way to young and SOB' live to be a 100. I am interested in your system but proably have have niether the ability or knowledge to set it up. Take care and good luck.


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I'll explain more at a later date.

Hey, my Dad is 84 this year and defiantly not an SOB. He is starting to build my youngest brother a trailer so he can haul stuff to and from his new house. The trailer will be great, as usual! I am shooting a couple 330 cu/ft tanks of shielding gas his way next week. He sold all of his equipment due to health, but bought a new little Lincoln mig welder. Works really well for light stuff.

Told my Dad that he could just use my stuff, it's in his garage. Nah, but you need to change the voltage over first, and that is what I was late on, so he bought the other one.

I have the cable and want to flash the firmware on the mig, that's cool! Should make it a bit sweeter, not that it wasn't already sweet!

Birthday party for my Mom Sunday. Gonna be a good time! My Mother passed away 2 years ago, but we celebrate life!

Same thing happened with Ron as my Mother. Treated for Pneumonia for a few months, then they said Cancer, and it was too late.

My health insurance assigned me a doctor, based on location, and this dude is still an intern, still in the profession of Nurse! Pretty sure that I am doomed eek

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JKB, if your new assigned doctor is at a major teaching facility, then he may be fine. He should have a resident mentoring him. If not, then you may be doomed.


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Private Clinic indicate anything?

There must be a way to change this.

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Not sure. If he's a nurse practitioner working on his MD, then it's pretty common to see them now a days. IIRC, they work in conjunction with a regular MD at the same facility. I have seen my NP several times, and have been happy so far. It's getting far more common to see them as general practitioner's are getting stretched to the limit. I don't see that getting any better.

Obviously not sure how your health insurance plan handles this, but there should be options available for other doctors within their system. You probably were assigned your intern based on your zip code as you said.


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JKB, I didn't mean to infer that all people who live to a ripe old age is SOB' but look around at many of the older people on the world's stage. It just seems that too many good people die way to soon. The secret to getting good medical care is to get referred to a specialist. I see a NP for colds and the usual stuff but he knows his limitations. If you don't get better quick get a referral to someone that only treats people with that disease. I have had 4 different cancers and see 5 different doctors for them each year.


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NP is the correct term. Due to rising costs, our insurance was recently overhauled and is more confusing than ever. Assignments were made by zip code. One thing that is nice, is my employer covers half the deductible (excluding meds). You really have to know how to work these things tho.

I know what you mean Ken, I was just rambling on.

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I think my option for the well system is to install a storage tank, pump the water to that, then use a smaller pump with a real fancy motor on it to take care of household needs. I have some real crazy ideas for this stuff.

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esshup, or anyone,

Here is a link to a pretty decent article about VFD's and pumps.

http://epagepub.com/publication/?i=115577

When you open the link, click on contents in the upper left, then go to page 50.

This may make things a bit easier to understand.

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Either my eyes got really bad all of a sudden or it's blurry as heck. I'll keep trying.....


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It may be that your internet is a bit slow for the content. I noticed it to be a bit blurry up in the boonies. I think they have a PDF version also. I'll check later tonight.

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Originally Posted By: esshup
Either my eyes got really bad all of a sudden or it's blurry as heck. I'll keep trying.....


When you click the link, on the upper right you'll see "tools", click that, then click PDF. It will download the entire issue.

Clear as a bell on my laptop and Nexus 7 at home.

The PDF is much easier to read tho.

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The PDF version is blurry in the D.C. area also. It is over my head anyway but the internet is top notch up here.


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O.K. The PDF document worked. I read it and mostly understand what they are saying, but don't test me on the material! Also, I don't have a clue as to how one figures out the VFD that would be needed.

What is the slip rating that they are referring to?

So, I need to find a motor that will work on the reduced current that will be supplied, and I need to find a pump that will pump the GPM that I'm looking for at 60%-70% of it's max rating for a >60% energy savings?

Am I doing O.K. so far?


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Maybe it's my monitor or something because both are clear as a bell here. Internet is 30M here.

Anyway, I found a couple more engineering manuals online (did I ever mention that I hate Google)

The weak link in submersible well pump motors are the bearings.

The bearings can not function properly at motor speeds of less than 30Hz for specified durations, or you will toast them.

Franklin and Goulds are a straight line ramp to operating speed with no longer that 1 second below 30Hz.

Grundfos is a straight ramp to 30Hz in 3 seconds, then you can do anything you like after that to 60Hz.

Franklin had a disclaimer that their motors are not inverter rated, but will work between 30-60Hz. They also stated that you should not restart the motor for at least 7 minutes after it was turned off. eek

Grundfos seems to be the best choice so far. You can do a pretty decent soft start within their parameters.

A hard start is where you turn a motor on and your lights go dim for a second or so. That's because it is sucking a whole bunch of juice to get it going to full speed. A soft start gradually gets things going so it slowly applies the juice to the motor. No light dimming effects.

Based on this new info., there is no way a well pump in the 10HP (or even smaller) range could be controlled, due to mechanical limitations, that could draw me a glass of water based on only controlling the motor.

The high end side of things it a totally different story tho.

Maybe a new post should be started, instead of hijacking others laugh blush

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Sounds good to me.

Here ya go JKB!


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