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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Protect Your Pump When Your Well Runs Dry

Pumps and their motors are cooled by the water flowing through them and around them. Running a pump without water, even one time, can cause the pump to lock up or seriously degrade the pumps performance. Submersible pumps are the most susceptible to this type of damage.

You can never determine exactly how much water is in your aquifer or how long that water will last. You may want to protect your expensive well equipment should the well run below a preset level.

Pumptec is a solid state device to protect your submersible pump system from running dry. When the water level drops too far, the motor will start to run faster. When the pump motor changes speed it affects the amp load on the motor leads.

Pumptec will interrupt power to the motor whenever the water drops below a preset level. After a present time, Pumptec will restart the motor. Pumptec can be used on both 115 volt and 230 volt motors. Pumptec can be set to stay off from 2 minutes up to 90 minutes, when tripped, or can be set for manual reset. This allows your water well to recover to a safe operating level before restarting the pump motor. When Pumptec detects that the motor load has dropped below a preset level for over 4 seconds, it will interrupt power to the motor and display the tripped condition light. To reset Pumptec manually, turn off the power supply for 5 seconds, and then turn it back on.

Protect Your Water System Investment with Pumptec

Franklin Electric’s Pumptec family provides the high performance pump protection you need deep down in your well. Designed to monitor motor load, Pumptec will shut down the pump to prevent damage. Installing a Pumptec product will protect your water system investment.


Franklin Pumptec QD
For Franklin QD Control Boxes
from 1/3 to 1 HP.

Franklin Pumptec 5800
For 2 and 3-wire single phase motors
from 1/3 to 1 ½ HP.

Franklin Pumptec Plus
For single-phase submersible pump motors
from 1/2 to 5 hp

Ask your certified pump installer about Franklin Pumptec.