One thing homesteading has taught me is that machines fail when you need them the most and often during periods when it’s difficult to get an expert over to fix things.
My pump machine is the heartbeat of my water supply, yet for months I kept running into the same frustrating problem: the control switch kept getting burned. Each time I thought I had fixed it, the problem would reappear, leaving me with a dead pump and no water flow.
This tests my patience several times because I had to deal with a similar problem repeatedly until you are completely exhausted.
💡 From Burnt-Out Switches to a Reliable Pump: My DIY Rewiring Journey
This pump is the only water source to the house where I drink from, and my animals also drink from it, and other things, so it was something that I couldn't push back to wait for an expert to come before it was fixed.
While observing, it turned out the major cause of the switch getting burned was the faulty, unclean connection that kept having partial contact with each other whenever the machine works and gets overheated. Now, the best way out of this problem was to do a complete rewiring of the box, one after the other, until every wire is changed.
This way I was able to eliminate this challenge once and for all.
There are certain problems that you can solve once you have the basic knowledge, and it is even more fun when you do it on your own.
This also saved me the cost of hiring someone to do it or having to get another box completely when it cost me so much less to get these wires and the switch.