Prakhonchai Nick
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No need for an electrician. The pump has a plug................all you need is a socket.
Water Shortages In Surin - July 2019
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No need for an electrician. The pump has a plug................all you need is a socket.
Yorky
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Not outside (in my experience). Would that be a 3 pin earthed socket?
Anyway, sockets require an electrician.
Prakhonchai Nick
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Either an external earthed socket, or the pump cable is fed into an inside socket.
nomad97
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My wife has looked into this and reckons that up to 16 metre 2" bore does not require a licence. I was speaking to @Bandersnatch earlier this afternoon and he thinks a 3" bore is okay. We do not live in the city but in Muang Surin. As far as the council is concerned we could be living in Buachet, out in the country.
As to cost, the drilling man has quoted 4,000 baht to sink a 2"x 16 metre borehole. A suitable Hitachi pump for deep bores, a DT-P300XS sells for 9,700 baht in Thai Watsadu. Add in the cost of the electrical connection, 20 meters of 3 core cable/switching and some blue plastic pipework and the cost will be around 15,000 to 16,000 baht. If I need to add an in-line activated charcoal filter between the pump and the holding tank, a shop outside Makro sells these for 9,700 baht. This is for consideration later. Similarly, if I want to plumb in drinking water to the kitchen at a later date, a suitable reverse osmosis unit with 3 filters can be purchased for under 10,000 baht.
In the meantime, I have just fitted some pipework to collect water from the roof to fill the tank. With a 11 x 7 metre sloping roof, a reasonable drop of rain should fill the tank in minutes. It looks like it may rain tonight.
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nomad97
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Or no Thai’s pointing at the ‘bleeding obvious’What ? - no ribbon-cutting ceremony with monks.lol
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Yorky
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Do you have the specification on that pump? It's no good drilling a 16 metre hole only to find water at 12 metres which a surface mounted suction pump cannot reach. Water over c. 8.5 metres will require a submersible pump which will then require a larger diameter bore.
nomad97
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This is the Malaysian specification for the same Thai model. I think it is good enough for the job although I will listen to what the man drilling the hole has to say.
nomad97
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Available from Lazada too.........................
https://www.lazada.co.th/products/h...o4m.searchlist.list.3.66fd4ea8q8yDOh&search=1
https://www.lazada.co.th/products/h...o4m.searchlist.list.3.66fd4ea8q8yDOh&search=1
gotlost
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2 inch bore with 60 foot casing, bored to 40 meter
Thats the same unit I have and about the same price. Bought ours at HomePro.
Thats the same unit I have and about the same price. Bought ours at HomePro.
Yorky
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If that states suction lift of 12 m to 30 m they are talking out of their arses.
Suction pumps operate using a vacuum. At sea level a total vacuum will permit lift of roughly 1 bar, i.e. 10 metres. It is unlikely that any pump of this size can achieve total vacuum therefore better to consider best case of 8 - 9 metres. Unless I'm wrong, you cannot achieve a pressure lower than a total vacuum.
gotlost
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gotlost
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Why? HomePro just up the street from you.
Btw My water table is about 4 meters and this unit works fantastic.
Yorky
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An either would be better.
nomad97
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If you study the pump you will see 2 pipes going down. I am no expert and @Rice will clarify I am sure, but one of the pipes is pumping water into the bore. With the application of the Bernouli Principle and with the aid of a venturi nozzle, water can be pumped more than the theoretical maximum of 8 or 9 meters.
