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Commercial fountain construction guide What else do we need to know for your fountain? What are the pool dimensions? Length, width, depth or if circular Diameter and depth This is important as some nozzles need to almost submerged in order to work properly ___________________________________ Nozzles / pumps What nozzles would you like? How many would you like? How high do you want the jets of these nozzles (This determines the pump required) ____________________________________ Lights Would you like lights, if so what watt. 35, 50 75 or bigger We can supply either submersible transformers or non submersible transformers. The advantage of submersible transformers is you reduce cable cost, the down side is they are 150 W max which would you like __________________________________________ Electricity supply is 3 phase available Musical fountains require single phase __________________________________________ Things you may not know about. Typically a pool is concrete, but how are you going to get the cables out of the pool? In a commercial fountain special cable glands are used which are placed in situ before the pool is cast
As you can see this one has 4 outlets bigger are available but with pumps and lights around your pool we find these are the most commonly used ones. The location of the pumps should also be considered. If it is a relatively big fountain then it probably has 3 phase pumps, not all of which are submersible, so these will need to be in a pump chamber, but if it has smaller pumps these can be mounted on the pool floor or during construction a small sump made for each pump and covered with a grille
Controlling the fountain. If the fountain is to be static it basically needs a timer for the pump /s, a timer for the lights RCD* protection mcbs* But if it is animated it will require an efc controller or 2 and maybe contactors* Animated fountains are typically 3 stage, single programme If it is musical it will require DMX units and a pc As the requirements of the fountain get bigger a separate room should be considered, if it is relatively small then the fountain could have a cavity wall and the controls fitted in this. ____________________________________________________ Fountain hygiene Fountain hygiene is dealt with on our page here Water replenishment / overflow Due to natural evaporation a fountain pool will loose water over time, to combat this it must have automatic water replenishment, its true you can use a simple ball valve, but this needs to be in its own chamber at water level within the pool, instead we recommend our electronic water level sensor If the pool over fills (it can in heavy rain) then you also need an overflow which goes directly to waste, we can supply these too
Above, although a small pool, it is a typical fountain lay out * we do not supply these as this is part of the electrical supply / run the fountain
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