How did you get power for your water pumps??

[cowboy]

The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
guys/gals get power to your pumps?

I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!

[RichToyBox]

I trenched power to a post type outlet when I first started ponding. After
I built my third pond, I continued the power to my shed, which is where my
filter systems are now. I did not want to have to dig to the 18 or 24 inch
depth that the code requires for direct burial, so I encased my wires in pvc
conduit to make it much harder to damage with a shovel. Some on here have
run permanent extension cords around the property on the fence.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html


"cowboy" > wrote in message
om...
> The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
> yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
> guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>
> I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
> as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!!

[BenignVanilla]

"cowboy" > wrote in message
om...
> The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
> yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
> guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>
> I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
> as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!!

The only truely safe solution is a circuit installed to local codes, IE
buried in conduit, with a ground fault interupter installed. Water and
'lectricity don't mix very well.

Now, I'll step down off my soap box and admit, that my pond is powered by a
bright orange extension code that sits in the mulch along the fence, as I
have been much to lazy to do it properly.

BV.
www.iheartmypond.com

[Bob H]

Had a extension cord, then one weekend I was feeling like I had NOTHING
better to do and started digging, code here requires 18" deep with a gfci, I
met code, got everything signed off and I must say I am glad to rid myself
of the tangle of wires in the yard....I must mention, my soil IS ROCCCCCKY
It took me the better part of the weekend to dig the trench.....felt like I
was digging to china you will be amazed on how deep 20" is when you are
digging a narrow little trench through really, really rocky soil.

"cowboy" > wrote in message
om...
> The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
> yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
> guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>
> I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
> as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!!

[John Hines]

(cowboy) wrote:

>The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
>yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
>guys/gals get power to your pumps?

Extension cord, they come in long outdoor versions.

[Mike Patterson]

On 22 Feb 2004 16:31:47 -0800, (cowboy) wrote:

>The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
>yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
>guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>
>I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
>as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance!!

I ran the power through plastic conduit buried 20 inches down.

Tip:
Run extra wires, and run it in oversized conduit so you can run other
stuff through it later if you want.

I ran 1/2 inch conduit, then realized I wanted more wire runs and
would like to also run a flexible water line, so added a 1.5 inch
flexible plastic pipe to the trench. Plenty of space to run more
wiring and a water tube as well.




Mike Patterson
Please remove the spamtrap to email me.

[~ jan JJsPond.us]

>The only truely safe solution is a circuit installed to local codes, IE
>buried in conduit, with a ground fault interupter installed. Water and
>'lectricity don't mix very well.

Yup, did this after 7 years.

>Now, I'll step down off my soap box and admit, that my pond is powered by a
>bright orange extension code that sits in the mulch along the fence, as I
>have been much to lazy to do it properly. BV.

And did the above prior to the permanent install. I had to run 150' of
extension cord, luckily 100' was next to the house on mulch or steppings
stones and the next 50' down the fence line on mulch. No place where it
could be mowed, tripped over, or cut through. ~ jan


See my ponds and filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

~Keep 'em Wet!~
Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a
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[jammer]

A nice meal and a bl

never mind

(just kidding, i still dont have electricity out there either)

[Steve J. Noll]

Came out of the back of an interior outlet in an outside wall
using a weatherproof Bell box. Put a GFI outlet there and then
continued on in rigid galvanized steel electrical conduit in a fairly
shallow trench to the pond. (Even more rugged than PVC.) Put two
GFI outlets in the pond equipment pit - one for the lights, one for
the pump and UV. Should have put in a third so the pump & UV each had
their own. Got a permit first.

On 22 Feb 2004 16:31:47 -0800, (cowboy) wrote:

>The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
>yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
>guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>
>I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
>as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance!!

Steve J. Noll | Ventura California
| Glass Block Pond http://www.kissingfrogs.tv

[[email protected]]

in our area of wisconsin I can attach pvc pipe to the fence and run the wire thru
that. it is "code". Ingrid

John Hines > wrote:

(cowboy) wrote:
>
>>The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
>>yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
>>guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>
>Extension cord, they come in long outdoor versions.



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[Ka30P]

We hired an electrician to do it.
We dug the trench for him, with the help of large football playing neighbor
teenager for the rocks from heck, to the specifications the electrician gave
us. Had the city inspect it.
Since I was doing before and after school care and always had tons of kids in
the backyard anyway it was a wise choice for us.


kathy :-)
<A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/">Once upon a pond</A>

[Bryan]

I ran ext cord last year, never had a good oppurnity to trench. Hopefully
there will be a nice day this spring, that I'm off work I can go to Home
Depot and rent a trencher ($20-$40/24hrs) well worth it for me. Being in OKC
you shouldn't have rocky soil, at least I have ony found 1 "rock" so far in
my diging of my pond, and it's a white gravel type rock from a
driveway/landscape stone, so not a natural rock for OK :-)

Bryan
http://www.safetybaby.com/yard/yard.htm

"cowboy" > wrote in message
om...
> The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
> yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
> guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>
> I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
> as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!!

[REBEL JOE]

You need to run a GFI outlet from your house to the pond. I ran my line
thur pvc pipe out to a post. On my site I think theres a pic of it
somewhere. Make sure you use a gfi it might save your life some day.



http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND

[joe]

That's what I did in San Diego too. The only thing about the conduit that is
important is that you must run individual wires, not cable because it will
overheat in the conduit.

Joe

On 2/23/04 7:03 AM, " > wrote:

> in our area of wisconsin I can attach pvc pipe to the fence and run the wire
> thru
> that. it is "code". Ingrid



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[PlainBill]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:30:45 -0500, Mike Patterson
> wrote:

>On 22 Feb 2004 16:31:47 -0800, (cowboy) wrote:
>
>>The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
>>yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
>>guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>>
>>I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
>>as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks in advance!!
>
>I ran the power through plastic conduit buried 20 inches down.
>
>Tip:
>Run extra wires, and run it in oversized conduit so you can run other
>stuff through it later if you want.
>
>I ran 1/2 inch conduit, then realized I wanted more wire runs and
>would like to also run a flexible water line, so added a 1.5 inch
>flexible plastic pipe to the trench. Plenty of space to run more
>wiring and a water tube as well.
>
>
>
>
>Mike Patterson
>Please remove the spamtrap to email me.
Not to mention a gas line for the flame <G>.

PlainBill

[PlainBill]

The ponds are at the edge of our patio, and about 20' from the breaker
box. Conduit runs along a patio beam to a series of outlets with
individual GFCI protection (so when one pump went bad, the other kept
running).

It was installed by the previous owner, but I still feel smug I didn't
have to dig a 200' trench like some of you guys. <G>

PlainBill

On 22 Feb 2004 16:31:47 -0800, (cowboy) wrote:

>The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
>yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
>guys/gals get power to your pumps?
>
>I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
>as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance!!

[grubber]

"Bryan" > wrote in message
...
> I ran ext cord last year, never had a good oppurnity to trench. Hopefully
> there will be a nice day this spring, that I'm off work I can go to Home
> Depot and rent a trencher ($20-$40/24hrs) well worth it for me. Being in
OKC
> you shouldn't have rocky soil, at least I have ony found 1 "rock" so far
in
> my diging of my pond, and it's a white gravel type rock from a
> driveway/landscape stone, so not a natural rock for OK :-)
>
> Bryan
> http://www.safetybaby.com/yard/yard.htm
>

One rock? I hate you. I have one rock that is the entire size of my pond -
18'x30', about 20" below ground level, plus thousands of 'smaller' rocks -
10 to 400 lbs.

[Broomhilda]

"grubber" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Bryan" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I ran ext cord last year, never had a good oppurnity to trench.
Hopefully
> > there will be a nice day this spring, that I'm off work I can go to Home
> > Depot and rent a trencher ($20-$40/24hrs) well worth it for me. Being in
> OKC
> > you shouldn't have rocky soil, at least I have ony found 1 "rock" so far
> in
> > my diging of my pond, and it's a white gravel type rock from a
> > driveway/landscape stone, so not a natural rock for OK :-)
> >
> > Bryan
> > http://www.safetybaby.com/yard/yard.htm
> >
>
> One rock? I hate you. I have one rock that is the entire size of my
pond -
> 18'x30', about 20" below ground level, plus thousands of 'smaller' rocks -
> 10 to 400 lbs.
>
>