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SILENTFLO
™
Pool Pump
Owner’s Manual
SILENTFLO™ Pool Pump
Owner’s Manual
PLUMBING
800mm
Certified Anti-entrapment
Cover or Suction Fitting,
screw fastened to Main
Drain Sump
Suction Outlet
(Main Drain)
Valves OK between
pump and Tee
Pump
Certified Anti-entrapment
Cover or Suction Fitting,
screw fastened to Main
Drain Sump
Suction Outlet
(Main Drain)
No valves between Tee
and Main Drains
PLUMBING
Pump suctions are hazardous and can trap and drown or disembowel bathers. Do not
use or operate pump, pool or spa if a suction outlet cover is missing, broken, or loose.
Follow the guidelines below for a pump installation which minimises risk to users or
pools and spas.
Entrapment Protection
The pump suction system must provide protection against hazard of suction
entrapment or hair entrapment/entanglement.
Testing and Certification
Suction outlet covers must have been tested by a nationally recognised testing
laboratory and found to comply with the latest AS1926.3 standard or ASME/ANSI
specification for Suction Fittings For Use in Swimming Pools, Spas, Hot Tubs, and
Whirlpool Bathtub Applications.
Outlets Per Pump
Provide at least two hydraulically balanced main drains, with covers, for each
swimming pool pump suction line. The centres of the main drains (suction fittings)
must be at least 800mm apart.
The system must be built so that it cannot operate with the pump drawing water from
only one main drain (that is, there must be at least two main drains connected to the
pump whenever it is running). However, if two main drains run into a single suction
line, the single suction line may be equipped with a valve which will shut off both main
drains from the pump.
More than one pump can be connected to a single suction line as long as the
requirements above are met.
Water Velocity
The maximum water velocity through any suction outlet must comply with the
latest AS1926.3 Standard or ASME/ANSI Specification for Suction Fittings For Use in
Swimming Pools, Spas, Hot Tubs, and Whirlpool Bathtub Applications.
Hazardous suction.
Can trap hair or body
parts, causing severe
injury or death.
DO NOT BLOCK
SUCTION.
