chopped
Veteran Member
Hi there. I have a question I have no answer to.
Here is the situation.
Deep well pump 240 volts. Its fed from a breaker and then through a double pole switch, and then of cource through the pressure switch. A year or so ago I had some issues with the pittless, and after that I wanted to have an indicator light for when the pump was actually pumping and powered.
So I added a wire onto one 'leg' of the switch and up to an outlet,where I placed a night light...
This worked great and I could see when the pump was powered.
I them scaled back and got an LED night light bulb and that also performed well.But found and odd occurance reciently, as the pump was in 'off' mode and there was a slight glow to the base of the LED bulb.At first I thought maybe there was voltage trough it , but upon shutting off the switch it still glowed, and then with switch and breaker off it still glowed.
Now I remember once when I had the power in the house go out and it seemed like the LED night lights continued to work.....Even then I wondered if the house was getting a low amount of voltage.( just enough to run the night light but not run anything else)
So I question why I observe this? thanks for any ideas ..
Here is the situation.
Deep well pump 240 volts. Its fed from a breaker and then through a double pole switch, and then of cource through the pressure switch. A year or so ago I had some issues with the pittless, and after that I wanted to have an indicator light for when the pump was actually pumping and powered.
So I added a wire onto one 'leg' of the switch and up to an outlet,where I placed a night light...
This worked great and I could see when the pump was powered.
I them scaled back and got an LED night light bulb and that also performed well.But found and odd occurance reciently, as the pump was in 'off' mode and there was a slight glow to the base of the LED bulb.At first I thought maybe there was voltage trough it , but upon shutting off the switch it still glowed, and then with switch and breaker off it still glowed.
Now I remember once when I had the power in the house go out and it seemed like the LED night lights continued to work.....Even then I wondered if the house was getting a low amount of voltage.( just enough to run the night light but not run anything else)
So I question why I observe this? thanks for any ideas ..