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I’m assuming your pump doesn’t have a pressure tank as part of the set up. I think Davey has pumps with little 1 or 2 gallon tanks. These aren’t probably big enough to help.

If you install a pressure switch to shut off the pump at 60# and have no pressure tank, the pump will come on, immediately be shut off by the switch, immediately come on again because the pressure stopped, and do this rapid fire pulsing as long as you have the water on.

But I think that if you install a larger pressure tank, you can make it work. The pump will come on at your lower pressure set point and turn off at the higher setpoint. You could have set this up with a cheaper and simpler pump but now that you’ve got this one, I’d use it anyway. Just add the tank.