Aah, a pump...... That'll be why it won't work, I thought the tap was the pump.......doh. Anyone got a link to one?
now that's made me chuckle , there are different types, submersible ones that drop into the bottom of the tank and ones that mount outside the tank, what type of tank do you have ?
Two 25 litre tanks, one to fill from fresh and the other to take the waste. So, it sounds like I run a live from the fuse box to the tap. The other wire from the tap goes to the live on the pump and the other wire from the pump goes to the earth? The tap acts as a switch for the pump?
So, I'm about to buy a pump and get this thing sorted, one final question, if both wires from the tap are live, does it matter which is live in and which is live out?
Right, success in so much as its working, no big bangs from the fusebox and its pumping water to the tap..........but won't stop. Looks like the tap isn't switching the pump off........ Turn the tap off and the Pump is running all the time....... Ideas?
Battery + supply to tap (fused) Tap to pump Pump to battery neg (the metal body) Sounds as if you have taken the + and - to the pump or the switch is faulty
Yeah, power from fuse box to the black wire on the tap, brown wire out from tap to brown on the pump, blue from the pump to the body. Connect it up and it just pumps constantly and the tap isn't switching it off. The wiring seems fine as there were no flashes and blown fuses like before So sounds like a dodgy tap then?
Pump lasted about a half a dozen pumps, it's packed up. Me and the dog have spent five minutes looking at it, we've decided it's goosed. Anyone recommend a better option than the £20 submersible type?
I got one of these. http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=130589063001 Its powerful. I put a bulldog clip on the hose to reduce flow/pressure on my devon tap. Its survived well, I often pump out the tank with it when I want to put fresh water in.
I picked up a whale submersible pump from Go Outdoors for about £12. Flow of water is adjusted through the tap and can go from. Trickle to pressure washer !
Replaced the second dodgy pump today, had to remove the sink, cut back the wires, re-wire (after finding this thread again) and then discovered that the new pump is wider than the old one so it won't go into the neck of the water bottle. Cut the top of the bottle to get it in and make sure it works which it does. Success on a new working pump with better, faster flow than the last one but now need to but a new water bottle with a wider neck. One step forward and all that.
