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Reliable Design Principles
Reliable Design Principles Sump System Failures

 

 

Don't spend your entire budget on a single "Industrial Grade" pump that a manufacturer or installer claims is more reliable.  Industrial grade typically means the pump is built to withstand high temperature or harsh chemical environments that will never occur in your sump.  The key to reliability is to build a system with Redundancy and Diversity.

Redundancy - Our Ultimate system is designed with high redundancy in mind so that no single failure can defeat the system.

Redundant Components:

bullet3 pumps
bullet2 independent discharge lines
bullet3 batteries
bullet2 battery chargers

Diversity - Our system design uses diversity to ensure that no common cause failure will defeat multiple components in the system.  This is achieved by using different pump manufacturers, different pump switch types, and different power sources.

 

Last modified: 05/22/08