While I don't have any experience with electric releasers, I have been told you can pump a vacuum tank by having a small vacuum line on the pressure side of a pump to make it so that pump is in a vacuum environment. I wonder if you add a 5/16 vacuum line just out past the pump if that would solve the problem. It was suggested to me years ago but I never tried it, that was before 3/16 came around, maybe even a 3/16 vacuum line might work. I didn't try it because I didn't want to risk having my pump freeze and also because I wash the tank after each time I pump it out and for that I need to shut off the vacuum to the tank anyway.
As I say, this might be a way to get it to pump.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.