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Yes the smoking wire nuts for me as well. I assume at this point it's the pump pulling too much amperage and the extra circuit on the switch circuit is causing some heat. Just for clarification the silicone in the wire nut smoked there was not a bunch of melted anything in the junction box.

Thanks Geofd, I'm not a licensed electrician but I'm familiar enough that I've done allot of electrical work both residential and some commercial that has been inspected. I'm a maintenance technician for a living, although I don't specialize in electrical or septic work im familiar enough that I...

I have a sand filter system and the final chamber before the drain field set off the high level alarm. I switched to manual and the pump ran so I pulled the tree and checked the floats for resistance at the control panel. The low level (to not run the pump dry) worked, the alarm obviously...