Understanding the Wellhead and Sensors

now this is the well head right here we're going to kind of go through all the parts of the wellhead with you so you can understand what you need and what you need to be thinking about if you're considering a solar well system like this so when you look at this it might look like a scrambled mess right here you don't know what in the heck you're looking at but actually it's very very neatly done very nicely done so this is the pipe that comes out of the well there's inch and a quarter poly pipe that goes all the way down into the well and again i believe we're down at about 250 feet down in the bottom of the well there is a sensor right here that senses pressure there's also a sensor down inside the well that senses the depth of the well so the way this laurent solar works is that sensor down at the bottom of the well will allow you to run it all the way down as deep as it possibly possibly can and then it'll shut it off so if you've only got about five feet of water left it'll shut it off let it fill back up for 10 minutes and it'll turn back on so in case you're out here irrigating you'll never run your well dry if you've got this whole setup so out of the well we go to pvc pipe there's a union right here this union is so that we can separate the pressure tank and the pressure tank is what i installed yesterday i actually had some guys the guys that put the well in actually installed this pressure tank this pressure tank is set at 28 psi this is set at 28 psi actually 26 psi 28 psi so it's a low pressure high volume type system the reason we want low pressure and high volumes because all we're doing is watering cows and maybe a tiny bit of irrigation so we're set again at 30 psi this was your house well you'd probably set it at 60 to 80 psi