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With the recent housing downturn, a lot of drillers are expanding their horizons and looking for work different than what grandpa did.

Here we turn our attention to pump and motor protection in a single-phase system, the potential problems and the available solutions.

I am finding that due to the lack of new construction, water well drilling is slow. Many of the drillers are diversifying into the abandonment of oil wells, and/or they are getting into geothermal loop installations.

This month's column on recent industry happenings from The Driller's editor.

With winter headed our way, a lot of us are starting to think about maintenance and upgrades during our slow season.

In October this year, I called on drillers in northwestern Pennsylvania, many of them rotary and cable-tool drillers. Most of the rotary drillers are the younger generation. I was surprised at how many cable-tool drillers there are in this part of Pennsylvania.

During the next few months, we will focus on the electrical side of pumped water systems. We’ll start by looking at the components in two-wire and three-wire single-phase systems.

There’s a reason why the best salespeople talk only 10 percent of the time.

The latest from the desk of The Driller's editor.

Splicing submersible pump cable is part and parcel of every submersible pump installation, because every submersible pump installation has at least one splice, between the motor leads and the pump cable.