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George - you should be able to remove the roof/top of the water tower, which should reveal the wiring 'diagram' -- i.e., which wire is common/ground, which one goes to the light and which to the solenoid that lowers the spout.  The spout on my water tower is very noisy when the button is pushed to lower it.  My guess is that its the solenoid 'rattle' due to supplying the solenoid with AC instead of DC.  If that is the case with your water tower, you should be able to put a small bridge rectifier in the circuit to the solenoid to provide DC.  I haven't done that for my water tower yet, so I'm not absolutely certain that will correct the noise (but I'm fairly certain).  It used to be you could get small bridge rectifiers at Radio Shack, so unless you have a local electronics shop, you may have to use one of the on-line outfits like Digikey or Mouser.

Another change I'd like to make on mine is to install a blinking LED light on the top - in place of the incandescent bulb.  The LED would mean another small bridge rectifier or a hookup to a DC power supply.

- Rich

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