That is common. I just sat through a pond building seminar at the local
Aquarium Adventure storegiven by their resident expert pond builders. They
both said not to use a GFI on the submersible pond pumps as those pumps give
alot of false trips. These guys build some $10,000 ponds , so they are not
just trying to save money.


"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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"Joan" wrote in message
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Hi;

I have both of my pumps plugged into a GFI outlet. I know that I should
have run 2 separate lines so that if one trips, the other will still be
pumping, but I learned this too late. In the last month the GFI has
been
tripped twice. I go to the GFI switch in my garage that controls these,
flip the switch, and the pumps come back on. What could be the problem?
Fortunately, I have been home both times that this has happened.

I had an electrician out to the house for some work, and asked him to give
me an estimate on running a line and a GFI to the pond. He suggested that
the pumps are prone to tripping GFI's and that they typically recommend no
GFI for ponds, as the pumps are designed to handle this.

He sounded like he made sense, but it seems contrary to what I have been
told before.

BV.