Current flow detector for remote water pump.
vey wrote:
Steve W. wrote:
Looking for a way to activate a small lamp to show when a remote
mounted water pump is running. I know I have seen the method before
but my dusty brain cannot seem to find it. The pump is a 120volt unit
mounted in a remote pump house out of visual range or I would wire a
light across the pressure switch. I was thinking of something like an
inductive coil around the hot lead feeding a circuit that would power
the light. No problem working on the panel end. Ideas?
Maybe I am stupid, but couldn't you just wire a 120 lamp cord and bulb
in parallel with the pump? You would do this at the switch. When the
pressure switch closed, then the pump and the bulb would come on.
Or you could wire in after the controller box, if you have one.
But make sure that this really is a 120 pump. Most are 240 and then you
would wire one hot to one side of the bulb and neutral to the other side
of the bulb.
Oops, sorry.
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