"15 gallons!? Your pump must run for 15 minutes to pressurize that thing."
Yes gallons. My waterpump was a nightmare and I hated it. Always losing prime, leaking, old and worn out. However the existing tank was shot and leaking so it needed to be replaced first.
I've always followed the same philosophy with my ranches that I've built. Well pumps at 600+ feet and then a surface high pressure pump at 125 psi, all feeding 250 gallon (2X125 gallon) bladder accumulator tanks, then a PRV dropping it to 50psi to feed the house. Those are expensive pumps to run and very inconvenient when you lose water (no redundancy) so you do everything possible to eliminate cycling.
I suppose we all have our own way of doing things, and mine has always been to avoid like the plague the "yacht" stores like West Marine. Anything needed was through commercial fishery chandlers, Home Depot, industrial supply houses, etc. It's amazing how much more expensive things are for the marine industry. (thread drift
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