I am not a well driller but I do own 17 rental houses...all on drilled wells that I had drilled. I have had to go back and repair several over the years. I also own a hunting cabin in Rockbridge Co. Va. That just cost me $26,000.00 to have drilled {900ft deep} so I know a little about drilling in the mountains. First I would say this, in regards to a replacement pump I always get the 1 1/2 horsepower pump. I also always install the 40/60 PSI control switch{not the 30/50.} It is also best if you have the biggest bottle or bladder tank that you have room for.
All that aside, depending on where in Pa. you live {mountains??} It is very likely you may have the water below the pump. It's a whole different ball game when you are drilling wells in rock. Unlike where I live in So. Md. where we have three different aquifers underground. Here you can drill anywhere you want and hit one of three underground rivers that never run low on water. It's kinda like sticking a pump in the Chesapeake Bay...the only way you wont have water is no electric or a burned up pump. So if you are somewhere in Pa. with an aquifer {underground river} it is probably not the water level in your well. That said, 200 ft is not very deep for a drilled well unless it is in the mountains or solid rock. As above, different ball game...in this case you drill hoping to hit cracks and fissures in the rock that contain water. The catch is you generally wont have alot of volume. Being up on a mountain top has nothing to do with how deep the well has to be drilled, it is strickly a matter of where the water is. My well at the cabin is 900 ft {bad luck for me} the next closest well on the same mountain about 1/4 of a mile away is less than 150ft and he has plenty of water. I think in Va. it has to make 450 gallons a day to be a certified usable well and mine just squeeked by. No filling swimming pools for me, but the neighbors will almost make that amount in an hour. He got lucky and hit a big crack filled with water. All this goes to your questin about gallons per minute, the pump is fixed but the well may or may not supply that much water for you depending on again where you are. I looked for land in Pa. earlier this year for a cabin/hunting spot and they have alot of trouble getting good water taste wise. Many people in the areas I looked tried to drill a well but ended up installing a cistern instead.
One of my rentals had a pump quit earlier this year and it read voltage out to the casing just like yours. The well driller installed two differet pumps and finally said "all these pumps cannot be defective." It proved to be a wire staple driven too tight under the crawlspace that finally broke the wire. It read voltage because the wires still touched but the necessary amps wouldn't go through. In your case it is probably just the pump. They seem to last about 10-15 years or so but like anything subject to puke at any time. As above if it is hung on flex tubing you can pull it and change the pump yourself, if not {at only 200 ft I dont know why it wouldn't be unless it is a old, 20 plus years old well} Call the driller. I have spent so much money in the last 8 years on wells I should have just bought a rig!! Good luck.
