"Mike Patterson" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:16:20 -0600, "Reel McKoi" wrote:

My 1200 gph pump is flipping the breaker. AAARRGGGHHHH! It's a
thermally
protected Beckett. How is water getting to the "juice?" I don't suppose
they can be fixed - anyone?

I had to scramble to hook up a 500 gph just to keep the water moving.
:-(

First make sure the pump alone is the problem -

## Thanks Mike, we believe it was. All the others were checked and didn't
flip the breaker. See my post above. Water had leaked past the heavy
rubber seal seal. The seal itself looked in good shape.

If there is anything else on that circuit, unplug it, then try the
pump again - still trippping the breaker?

## It sure was.....

If you have a clue about electricity, try swapping that breaker with
another breaker of the same size in your panel.
Try plugging the pump into a different circuit to see if it still
trips the breaker.

Is there any place that water or bugs, ants, plants, etc. might be
getting to the wiring? Maybe an outside receptacle box, light fixture,
etc etc etc?

## We checked all those things before opening the pump - to find water
INSIDE, past the seal. :-(

Examine the wire on the pump, every inch of it, paying special
attention to the plug and where it enters the pump, If it normally
runs along the ground at any point, someone (or something like a deer)
might have stepped on it and caused a puncture or pulled it apart
enough to cause a short between internal wires. The outer sheath may
not even be broken but the wires inside still can be - look for kinks
in the wire.

## That's something we need to do. I need to clean the wire of mud and
slime and check it real good. We're sure it was the water that passed the
seal causing the problem. I hope the grease, resetting the seal and
tightening the screws worked. The water is already turning a greenish
brown - and Foster&Smith says it'll take a week to get the new pump to us.
We're going to plug the Versa in tomorrow and see if the seal is ok now. In
that case we'll keep it as a backup pump.
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McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
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