Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Property Projects & Construction Dig Well to fill pond

I'm not an electrician, but I think you'll need more than 12 ga for that length of run and load.....

We'll see this month what the electric bill is. Last month I didn't need to run the well 24/7 with the rain that we had. Last month between the A/C and well the electric bill was $100 more than in May.

I researched pumps. The best place to source the pump was from the well driller, but do your research and see what pump best fits your needs. There are variable speed pumps out there, but they need a controller, which adds to extra cost. For my needs, going to a larger hp pump wouldn't save any $$, it would just reduce the number of hours that I would need to run the pump - this is the pump for the house too.

If you are going to have someone drill the well for you, I'd just run the conduit and not the wire. They'll run the correct sized wire when they install the pump and it'll save them having to trench in the wire.