Old submersibles used to have piggybacked mercury float switches, but now many pumps work off of a pressure switch built into the pump. Another types is a float switch that rides on a rod and has a magnetic contacter.
SOURCE: I have a Campbell and Hausfeld submersible
Is the pump pumping out water when it comes on? If it is than it may be running as it is designed and you may want to look in to why you are getting so much water in the sump. Once the sump is filled to high enough level it will run the pump until the water level is at a low enough level. In other words the ON level switch is much higher than the OFF level switch.
SOURCE: how do you manually adjust
you have a float switch that has a lenth of wire. If you want to Lower the water take a couple of large zip ties and rap the around the motor. dont make it to tight because now come the adjustment. You take the foat and turn in upside down and hole it at the level yu want to water to be at. Take a second zip tie and rap it around the wire going to the float. so that were the tie that is on the motor lines up with the wire as it hangs down at the point you tie the second zip tie to the first and pull them both tight.
what you have done is shorten the wire to the float so that the pump turns on sooner than if yu were to let the flost extent the wire all the way out.
Hope this works for you have fun.
Tom
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