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Default shallow well stops pumping after 5 min. then stops until I turnoff and wait.

On 1/14/2014 5:44 PM, Frank Price wrote:
water presssure is fine for a few minutes,then it stops. I turn off the
water and wait a few minutes and it returns for the same cycle again.


When my submersible started doing something this, the pump was going bad
requiring maybe double the amperage and would shut down to cool back to
normal before restarting.