EcoInnovation React Pump, System Design And Installation Manual

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PowerSpout React Pump Installation
© 2019 EcoInnovation Ltd (NZ) V2.1 Page 99
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Check your intake screen is clean.
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If you have a filter bag on the React pump suction line clean/exchange this regularly.
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Replace the oil after one month from new and top up the oil every few months as
needed.
Before every summer pumping season:
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Walk the delivery line and check for any damage to the pipe.
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Check bearing health by noting if there is any play on the Smart Drive motor rotor.
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In NZ return to EcoInnovation if on the React pump service plan/agreement.
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Replace oil.
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Check for any water drips from the plunger seal weep holes. Drips indicate your
React pump needs new seals to be fitted. This is easy to do yourself (refer to the
service videos ).
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Check for signs of water in the oil, milky colour. This can occur once the water side
seals start to leak and/or the ceramic pistons are damage/worn. Squirts of high
pressure water mist onto the oil side seals is the cause this of slow contamination.
Change seals, pistons and oil.
As-required maintenance
We also suggest you are wary of complacency. Since these systems work and give free
pumped water, people often neglect to do any checks at all until the React pump stops, they
then run about trying to fix it quickly, but do not have the parts required on hand. A full set of
spare seals and ceramic plungers are available for an extra fee. Once you use them
remember to re-order them.
If maintenance is not your thing, then join the React pump service plan and for a fixed
annual fee, let us do the servicing for you (NZ only).
8.5. Spare parts
If you live in a remote part of the world you should consider having a full spare parts kit (or
complete spare pump), BLDC and microprocessor on the shelf. This will mean that
whatever the problem you can get your system going again quickly.
8.6. Lubricating the React pump
We recommend you to use SAE15W/40. The pump manufacture advises oils in the viscosity
range SAE15W/40 to Shell 220 gear oil. The operating temperature on the React pump will
typically be in the range 10-50 ºC.
In general 220 grade oils designed for splash lubrication for triplex plunger pumps have a
viscosity, cSt at 40 ºC of 220, examples are:
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Mobil gear oil 630
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Exon sparton EP 220
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Texaco Meropa 220
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Shell Omala 220
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Chevron NL gear oil 220
These 220 oils should only been used once the pump has been run in for over 500 hours
and only if noise levels have increased.
If the pump noise increases over time, then we suggest you change from SAE15W/40 to
Shell 220 gear oil.