Well pump

[WinterDeere]

Isn't the start cap behind the outer cover?
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You might be right. Come to think of it, I’ve seen them both ways.

edit: Just saw OP posted new picture showing cap and relay behind cover. Sorry about the confusion.

 

[WranglerX]

According to this picture if cover with start capacitor and relay "slip" connects with wired terminals and with what appears to be check valve below pressure switch, all you are missing is L1/L2 (from fuse/circuit breaker) routed through pressure switch to pump control box....

 

[1930]

According to this picture if cover with start capacitor and relay "slip" connects with wired terminals and with what appears to be check valve below pressure switch, all you are missing is L1/L2 (from fuse/circuit breaker) routed through pressure switch to pump control box....

Wired it in this afternoon and everything works as should.
Thanks again to everyone that commented

 

[ning]

ok now that's done, let's hear from everyone who only reads the first post and then answers some un-asked question incorrectly for the next four pages and weeks...

 

[steve tym]

See photos attached to OP, I'll re-attach them here. No start cap or relay, and Y is jumpered to R terminal.

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How can you tell there is start cap or relay? They are, or are supposed to be, on the inside of the lid with the blue sticker.

 

[steve tym]

Sorry WinterDeere, responded to your post before finishing the thread and caught your correction.

 

[1930]

Sorry WinterDeere, responded to your post before finishing the thread and caught your correction.

No soup for you!

 

[WinterDeere]

It actually wasn't a mistake, but rather a failure to remember that styles have changed over time.

While it seems most well controllers have the cap and relay in the lid now, probably so that unawaware DIY'ers aren't sticking their hands into a box with a capacitor that may be holding a charge as high as 340 VDC, older ones mostly had these components in the box itself, not the lid. I'm more used to seeing that older style, as I own and mostly work on older homes.

Bonus points for anyone who can figure out why a capacitor on a 240 VAC circuit may be charged as high as 340 VDC.

 

[steve tym]

I have in my possession a 1968 Franklin control box with the guts in the cover. You must have some really old stuff where you are.

 

[WinterDeere]

I have in my possession a 1968 Franklin control box with the guts in the cover. You must have some really old stuff where you are.

Maybe! It can be tough to tell the age of a box mounted to a wall in a basement utility room. I wonder though if Franklin was just the first to switch to this style, before some of the others.

 

[steve tym]

I believe Franklin was the first with the quick disconnect control box. Most others at this point make a box that is interchangeable with Franklin.