I swear I asked a well question on here already, but couldn't find it. Anyways, my well tank is waterlogged and I don't really know anything about wells. Mine is the older style with an air volume control valve, so no bladder. The pump is short cycling and also found out it would turn on for a couple seconds about every 15 minutes when no water has been used. I had someone scheduled to come out, but somehow I never got on their schedule even though I called and gave them the address.
Now with that being said, I've had the breaker shut off for a couple weeks now to keep the pump motor from turning on and off so much because the general consensus is it will burn the pump out. How? I have no idea, makes no sense to me. I can see a capacitor going bad on the motor, but the pump? Today I decided to turn the breaker back on because I needed to use the bathroom and it ran for about a minute when no water was even being used and I decided to shut it back off. Does this mean the tank drained back into the well? Or did pump lose prime now that I had the power off? Maybe it was just filling the tank back up, but it was running and the pressure gauge stayed at 0 so I thought maybe it lost prime and so I shut it back off.
Any help would be appreciated.