We had a lot of rain in a few days so my sump pump was busy doing it's job until the clamp that holds the float in place broke. Needless to say, the pump was off for a few hours and flooded my basement. I didn't have time to go to town and buy anything to fix it. I went through a few quick and dirty prototypes using an old piece of pvc, some styrofoam, and zip ties holding it in place. This was ugly and only worked part of the time. The switch end stops would catch on the inside of the tube when water hit the float just right. So obviously this wouldn't do. The pump needs to work all the time. So I drew up a quick sketch of what I thought I wanted to do. It didn't need to be pretty just had to work. I went into this phase knowing this was just a prototype until I had time to finish cleaning up my basement and tweak it. Here is what I ended up with. I will be redoing this eventually. So for now it's on the bottom of my very long todo list :)
