How To Add Air To Pressure Tank

We have an older well arrangement in a house that we purchased this summer. The information that I have found on the web assumes that there are some valves in the system that I don't have, for instance allowing me to drain the tank or bypass the h2o softener.

There are a couple of other valves I left out, but they are not helpful, they just let you to shut things off before or afterwards a component and so I left them off the diagram.

The pressure switch is set up at 40/80 psi and the pressure tank is probably 75% full of water based on the line of condensation on the outside of the tank.

The directions I take found talk about draining the arrangement, then pressurizing it to 25psi, then turning on the pump and flushing the organization at a point before the water softener. I cannot do that since I don't have whatsoever points to drain from and I cannot get any h2o out to the system earlier information technology hits the house or an outside irrigation hose bib.

My plan is to turn off the pump, attach air compressor and open a faucet, so that I can basically replace water in the tank with air and stop when the tank is 30% full at 40psi. Then I would turn the pump back on and hopefully be good to go.

This is the manner it feel similar the system is intended to work, is that the instance? Or is there a better technique that I should be using?

Edit #1: In response to the comments I don't think that I have an X-Y trouble here, clearly I have a waterlogged pressure tank and I am trying to prepare that in club to reduce the charge per unit my well pump is cycling at. I know the what, I am uncertain of the how in the case of my older system.

@jsotola I don't want to sound pedantic, but I'll explain it for anyone else who might accept like questions. The purpose of the pressure tank is to smooth out the operation of the well pump, so pump will shrink the air in the tank up to 80 psi then when you open up the tap the air pressure is what actually pushed the water out or the pipe. Then when the pressure drops to 40psi the pump volition turn back on to repressurize the tank dorsum up to 80 psi. If we have 1 gallon of air at 40 psi, then at lxxx psi that same air will simply take upwards .57 gallons, so in the example of my 40 gallon tank having 25% air at 40psi means that the tank will only shop 5-6 gallons of water. If I start at 70% air then the tank would store xvi gallons of water and the pump would cycle significantly less.

The reason I was suggesting 70% was that I did not know if the pressure switch had to stay submerged.

Edit #2: Hither is a pic of the tank in question. Information technology is one of the old ones with no membrane.

Edit #iii: I'll start with the embarrassing news, when I got into this process I realized that in that location was a hose bib mounted right next to the brawl valve. It was covered in black goo and blended in with the permanganate container, but this fabricated flushing the tank more applied.

Before that I had been filling the tank via the Schrader valve and it was making progress. But then I noticed the valve I had missed before. And so I, just drained the whole tank at that point.

I pressurized it to 37psi and then turned the pump back on, everything filled up nicely. I and then opened upward the valve and flushed the system for a while.

This is a graph of the pump activeness before and afterwards the process:

The pump is cycling much more infrequently. I guesstimate that I am losing about twenty gallons of water an hr, then that is my next issue to resolve.

How To Add Air To Pressure Tank,

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