I have a garden water feature which has a 220-240vac submersible pump . It connects directly to the 230vac power mains with no isolation at all. Is this safe and legal?
gamefisher,
Jan 11, 10:50am
Legal but not safe unless a RCD (residual current device) is used at the plug end or your house is wire for RCD's.
ryanm2,
Jan 11, 3:09pm
Must be an isolation point somewhere - how do you turn it off?
biggal,
Jan 11, 6:14pm
you either unplug it from the 230vac wall socket or use the wall socket switch - not that I entertain using it like this. Some years ago we bought a water feature from the same company which had a 12volt submersible pump fed to a step down transformer then connected to the 230vac mains. Go figure.
ira78,
Jan 12, 5:29am
That's how pretty much all pond pumps are. They don't have their own switches.
12v and 24v ones are also common, though generally more expensive, weaker and less reliable due to the extra components.
tigra,
Jan 12, 9:04am
Use a solar panel and pump. Convenient and no wiring
groovie1,
Jan 12, 9:40am
Why bother with electricity unless your garden feature is huge? My solar runs a small waterfall feature in my front garden, that'll do me until I want to size up increasing solar energy accordingly.
biggal,
Jan 12, 1:57pm
The whole point of my post is that the product should not have been marketed with misleading instructions. Some other buyer than me may have well ended up with a hazardous situation. I am familiar with the use of RCDs but in this case there is no earth connection to actuate the RCD. I wanted to gauge others opinions. Maybe I need to take the matter to a higher level.
samanya,
Jun 16, 3:59am
#2 has got it in one.
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