Thompson Pump & Manufacturing Co. in April graduated 55 attendees from their 23rd annual Pumpology School at their corporate facilities in Port Orange, Fla.
These old Fats Domino lyrics, written for a love song, are apropos for the groundwater industry, especially in this era of changing weather patterns and dropping water tables.
There has been a lot of talk lately about “the cloud”-cloud computing, cloud data storage, etc. So what is this cloud all about and how, if at all, does it apply to the groundwater industry? I decided to do a little snooping, so I visited a company I’d heard about in Las Vegas called Aqua Management Inc. (AMI).
The
simplest method of starting a three-phase pump motor is by closing a contactor
and allowing the motor to start at full voltage, or “across-the-line,” as it is
called.
Consider this scenario: You go to a flea market,
and spot an electric motor that looks similar to the one on the wash-down pump
in your barn that is starting to make noise.