Pressure Tank Installation and Water Hammer Prevention

you'd probably set it at 60 to 80 psi this is set up so we can easily detach so what you'll do if you need to add air so there's an air bladder inside this tank right here so part of it is filled with water and part of it is filled with air the reason we have this on here is because if you don't have a pressure tank system in here and you shut off water like on that hose bib over there when you instantly do that you send a surge of pressure it's called water hammer you send that surge of pressure through all of your pipes and down in the wellhead so we were getting over 100 psi at the top of the wellhead whenever our float valve shut off which is a bad thing it can cause a blowout down in the bottom of the well and we don't want that and it can also reduce your pump life so we installed this little 22 gallon i believe 20 gallon it's a 20 gallon tank so there is water up to probably about half and then there is a bladder inside here and that bladder because water does not compress that bladder compresses and that stops that water hammer effect if this is confusing post comments and questions down below the guys from lorentz will also be answering comments and questions the setup that we have here on the farm is a little bit overkill because we didn't know whether we'd be irrigating a whole lot whether it be irrigating crops or what exactly we'd be doing but with 10 gallons a minute on our well we really can't irrigate row crops with this well right here but we can water our animals and irrigate a small garden so that's how this whole system works right here so water fills up in here there's a reserve there's always a reserve in here there's always pressure in here and that pressure stops at about 26 psi this is set up so when you shut your water off it senses higher than 28 psi and shuts the well pump off thus saving the life of your well pump so it's all about