I have been asked to install a small garden water feature that needs an
electrical supply to run a small pump. The thing comes complete with
integral pump and 10m of cable attached. It is to be fitted within 1m
of the house and there is already a power point just inside the adjacent
wall. This is a new house with RCD protection built in.

Is there anything wrong with passing the cable through the wall, putting
a plug on it and plugging it in when required?

TIA

Steve

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:55:02 GMT, Steve
wrote:

I have been asked to install a small garden water feature that needs an
electrical supply to run a small pump. The thing comes complete with
integral pump and 10m of cable attached. It is to be fitted within 1m
of the house and there is already a power point just inside the adjacent
wall. This is a new house with RCD protection built in.

Is there anything wrong with passing the cable through the wall, putting
a plug on it and plugging it in when required?


I hope not - that's how our pond pumps are wired.

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:55:02 GMT, Steve wrote:

Is there anything wrong with passing the cable through the wall, putting
a plug on it and plugging it in when required?

The transformer should be inside, unless it says otherwise.

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Nigel M

Nigel Molesworth wrote:
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:55:02 GMT, Steve wrote:

Is there anything wrong with passing the cable through the wall,
putting a plug on it and plugging it in when required?

The transformer should be inside, unless it says otherwise.

What transformer? The OP described a mains cable I thought?

Dave

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:14:55 GMT, david lang wrote:

The transformer should be inside, unless it says otherwise.

What transformer? The OP described a mains cable I thought?

Well so did I, but I've never heard of a 240v pond pump.

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Molesworth writes
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:14:55 GMT, david lang wrote:

The transformer should be inside, unless it says otherwise.

What transformer? The OP described a mains cable I thought?

Well so did I, but I've never heard of a 240v pond pump.

I have one

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Nigel Molesworth wrote:
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:14:55 GMT, david lang wrote:

The transformer should be inside, unless it says otherwise.

What transformer? The OP described a mains cable I thought?

Well so did I, but I've never heard of a 240v pond pump.

They are common and widely available.

Dave

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:45:12 GMT, david lang wrote:

They are common

Ahh, that's why I've never seen one then ;-)

I guess I've just assumed that a pond pump would always be low
voltage, but I guess not.

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Nigel M

Nigel Molesworth wrote:

Ahh, that's why I've never seen one then ;-)


Chiz, chiz, chiz.

Dave