Problem with submersible well pump

[jeffladd207]

Unfortunately it's been a hard year and past couple days has been even worse I suddenly came home to no water. Assumed my submersible pump went bad I replaced it and still no water! Problem wasn't my pump the ground apparently settled around my well head or in between foundation and we'll. So now I got dig the old line up and see what's going on . In the mean time I've already replaced the pump so that's new I ran 100' of new 14/2 wire directly from the main wire from circuit breaker to the well casing and then connected the piece of electric line that gos to the pump . I bypassed the pitless adapter and ran plastic water line right out thru top of the casing so one section of the 14/2 wire is above ground and wire nutted to the next section which connects from top of the casing and continues to the pump. I attached the pump wires securely and correctly...problem is now after just a few minutes of running it's tripping my circuit break . I have a double/single breaker each is 20amp so 40 amp total..shouldn't that be enough to run the submersible ?? I've never had this issue until I installed the new pump. Not once had my well pump kick the breaker prior to installing this new one . Any suggestion or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you kindly

 

[jeffladd207]

Let me add to that yesterday I lost the water hooked up new pump and it pushed water for about 20 mins then stopped apparently today it stopped getting power in the same line so I'm assuming whatever compromised the water line also broke the electric line about a day apart I know it doesn't sound logical I've lived here for 20 years and never had and issue other than replacing well pump about 10 years ago
...any ideas,,advice, instruction of any kind is highly appreciated . Got 3 beautiful ladies that live with me and they don't want to make woods runs everytime mother nature calls

 

[ActionDave]

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