Well Pump Motor Wiring

To replace the two wire pump.

Well pump motor wiring.

The difference between 2 wire and 3 wire well pumps. The owner s manual will include wiring charts to make sure the wire gauge awg is correct which will prevent. Typical 3 wire 240v well pump wiring connections. After determining the voltage is zero disconnect the motor wires directly from the pressure switch box m1 and m2.

Replace a two wire pump. M2 motor 2 to pump motor. The diagrams for both the two and three wire pumps can be downloaded using adobe. The green ground wire should also be terminated to the box and a ground coming from the panel.

A 3 wire pump control box may actually have 6 physical wires present as follows. Assortment of 2 wire submersible well pump wiring diagram. It s extremely important to properly ground the system to any metal plumbing the control box for 3 wire well pumps and the motor frame using copper wire at least as thick as the other wires used to supply power to the pump motor. A wiring diagram is a simplified standard pictorial representation of an electric circuit.