How to determine which condensate removal pump you need

A condensate removal pump is used to remove the water which is on the battery of the air conditioner. It has two main components:

• the pump itself, drawing and ejecting water.
• the system handling the water level (on-off-alarm)

The pump :

Pumps used today are electromagnetic systems and have excellent performance in flow and pressure. We can reach 15m elevation levels, without difficulty.

They are more and more silent (between 28 and 40dBA, at 1m from the pump).

Levels management :

There are two types of levels management : electronic management and float system management. Until now, most of the used systems were electronic ones. If they were interesting in the principle, in practice it was different : condensation water becomes polluted (greasy layer on top of the surface, algae formation, scale or sludge deposit …) conduction could not be done and we quickly faced overflows and damages.

On the opposite, float type solutions are totally independant of water quality. The float creates a magnetic field and when there is an elevation, Reed lamps switch comes.

Start/stop and alarm are managed as this principle, which guarantees an extreme reliability to these solutions.

Selection sheet:

Technical specification

The values of levels are average values. Take into account a tolerance of ± 2mm on every level and always plan a condensate drain pan enough high so that beyond the level Alarm, he can again contain a volume corresponding to the defrosting of the battery either to the water which will continue to pass by in case of electric power cut.