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Terry wrote:


The smoke at the switch makes me suspect the lug or maybe the switch
first, but if the pump does fail again it might be due to the wire
size.

I am also wondering if this was the real culprit and the pump may
still have been good. We got about 9 years out of the pump we just
replaced and the current one is just the third in 20 years, so I would
doubt there are major problems with the wiring to the pump.