How Do You Hook Up A Generator To A Well Pump

I need to quickly hook up generator to 2 pole 230v well pump.

How do you hook up a generator to a well pump. A good honda eg 3500 watt generator will start a 1 hp jet pump while a 5kw lowe s special often cannot do the same thing. There is an 8 foot 4 wire cord coming from service entrance running to the pump control box. To keep your well pump pumping a stationary generator is hard wired into your electrical panel via an automatic transfer switch. I have a well pump but no power other then my gas powered generator.

A sump pump is a pump usually found in a building or home basement that sends water away to a safer place like an outside drain or dry well. How do i hook up a 220 well pump to a generator. I thought i could just put a heavy duty extention cord to the weel pump then plug it in but the pump goes to 12psi then turns off. Connecting or installing a generator to a sump pump can be a fail safe that can help prevent major water damage even when the home or building s power has gone out during a storm.

I have seen this with my own eyes. For example you need a 5 000 watt generator to run an 800 watt refrigerator and a 1 500 watt well pump at the same time even though they use less than 3 000 watts when running.