Can you run two pressure tanks on one well?

Welcome to the forums! You aren’t looking to gain pressure, just volume, so it would be a simple matter of piping another tank in tandem with the one you have. No new pressure switch or other periphery would be needed. The pressure will be the same in both tanks once they equalize.

Can I have two pressure tanks on my System?

Can I have two pressure tanks on my system? I have a 3000 gallon water storage tank that my 4 inch well pump (800 feet down) fills up and the water tank then gravity feeds about 5 feet into a shallow well pump that pumps water into a 60 gallon pressure pump about one foot away.

How does a second pressure tank work on a water well?

Or maybe your pump just needs to be lowered a few feet. The way a low producing well is handled is to install a large storage tank…but a second pump is added to provide house pressure by pumping from the tank. Then the well is set to pump a little bit every so many minutes to replenish the tank.

How many pumps into a main storage tank?

Rich… 1) It is presumed you are pumping water from 5 identical pumps at a common flowrate of 60 gpm into a common, overhead, 6” header that is sloped or flowing by gravity into a main storage tank. The header’s contents are “dumped” into the main storage tank through its roof via free-fall.

Do you need a second pump for a well pump?

You would need to go to a two stage system described earlier, with the well pump filling a non-pressurized storage tank and a second pump wired to the existing pressure switches to work the pressure tank (s).

Can a pump change the flow direction of a pressure tank?

Then the pump comes on and changes the flow direction into each tank and that causes water hammer (on both lines) that can damage pipe, appliances etc. and it isn’t good for the pump either. The best would be to take a line from the outlet of the pressure tank in house #1 to house #2, then there is no change of flow direction or water hammer.

Can a pump controller equalize both pressure tanks?

By reading these forums, if I understand correctly, the current pump controller and pressure switch will pressurize the new pressure tank but it might take a couple of cycles to get both tanks equalized. It’s also been mentioned that both tanks need to be running about 5psi less than the cut in rate which we run 40/60.