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DAB pump - intermittent problem

  • 26-06-2014 1:36pm
    #1
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,
    I've a pressurised domestic water system which uses a DAB Active EI 25/30 pump. (specs here http://www.dabpumps.com/dep/TS_ACTIVE-SYSTEM_ENG.pdf)
    In the event of system leaks, dripping, overflows or small water draws, the ACTIVE system limits the number of pump starts.
    Hammering is eliminated: when water is no longer being taken the motor-driven pump is stopped (delayed) when the flow rate is nil.
    If no water is being sucked up the ACTIVE system will trigger stopping the pump from running dry.
    On returned normal functioning conditions, ACTIVE automatically restores operation.
    The ACTIVE system requires no adjustment or maintenance

    Over the last day or two, sometimes the pump hasn't been responding immediately to the taps opening , after a minute or two I'll hear it kick in and all will be fine. No problem with it stopping once the flow has started. The little alarm indicator on the pump lights up so it thinks that there is something wrong.
    So far I've checked that there's water in the header tanks feeding it, and I can't find any leaking taps or cisterns (besides, I've heard it cycling before when I had a leaky cistern).

    Can anyone think of anything I should check before I have to call in someone? I'd have no problem uncoupling it etc.


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  • #2
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭KAGY


    So it's no longer intermittent :-( no water upstairs at all and just a trickle down stairs (actually literally just heard it kick in now for the first time in hours! )

    The question is now can I get spares for this pump assuming either the flow/pressure sensor or control board is gone? Google search only turns up international sites


  • #3
    Pump101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭Pump101


    KAGY wrote: »
    So it's no longer intermittent :-( no water upstairs at all and just a trickle down stairs (actually literally just heard it kick in now for the first time in hours! )

    The question is now can I get spares for this pump assuming either the flow/pressure sensor or control board is gone? Google search only turns up international sites

    Consolidated pumps in dublin are an agent for dab pumps. Google them and give them a call.


  • #4
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭KAGY


    Pump101 wrote: »
    Consolidated pumps in dublin are an agent for dab pumps. Google them and give them a call.

    Thanks for that. Defo the board or sensor as I connected the motor direct and it runs fine. At least I can fill the cisterns upstairs now.


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