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I put a volt meter accross the live and neutral pins of the pump's
mains plug. Spinning the motor by hand, I got nothing but a 0.00
volts reading. Meter was set to DC volts.

/If/ it gives out /anything/ it will be AC.

OK - thanks. I dried the AC setting, but again got zilch. That's a pity,
because if it had worked, the water pump would have had particular
advantages - in particular, its waterproof housing, making it totally
weatherproof.

Al