I need to install a lightning arrester on the circuit for my submersible well pump. Can someone tell me if it gets connected on the line side or the load side of the pressure switch? Charlie
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Probably best right at the well head.
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Yeah, my impression is that it should be at the wellhead. The protection is against lightning striking the buried wire or wellhead and damaging the motor.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
There usually on the pressure switch, it's the pump your protecting, put it on the load side.
http://www.sumteremc.com/lightning_protection.htm
Thank you one and all
Charlie