"Clive George" wrote in message
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I assume that the circuit is RCD protected. Do you really want to
trust your life (and the lives of family and friends) to a piece of
mechanical equipment that is not 100% reliable? All for the sake of
a few pounds.

How is anyone going to get killed (or even injured) by it? One's life
doesn't depend on the operation of a pond pump usually.

The pond pumps I've seen have mains cables going underwater. Seems like
they rely very much on maintaining the insulation and seals. Replacing the
cable will inevitably disturb these, and if you do get it wrong, then it's
not the operation of the pump which you're worried about, it's the elecric
water feature you now have.


You would have to repace only the cable outside the water and weatherproof
the splice in some way. Less effort to get a new pump TBH.