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Pump Guides

How to Choose the Right Water Pump

Start with the duty point, not the price list: flow, head, fluid and power supply decide the pump.

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 12 Aug 2026

 · 8 min read

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Pump Guides

How to Calculate Pump Head

Static lift, friction loss and pressure requirement — working through total head with a real example.

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 5 Aug 2026

 · 7 min read

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Pump Guides

Surface Pump vs Submersible Pump

Where each type wins, what it costs to run and how installation constraints usually settle the choice.

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 28 Jul 2026

 · 6 min read

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Borehole Pumps

How Borehole Pumps Work

A practical walk-through of what happens inside a submersible borehole pump: stages, motors, submergence, drawdown and the numbers that decide whether the set survives its first

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 21 Jul 2026

 · 7 min read

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Borehole Pumps

How to Size a Borehole Pump

A step-by-step sizing method for South African boreholes: yield testing, total dynamic head, friction loss, duty point selection, cable sizing and setting depth, with a full

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 14 Jul 2026

 · 9 min read

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Water Management

Choosing the Best Pump for Agricultural Irrigation

Drip, sprinkler, pivot or flood – each irrigation method sets a different duty point. How to match pump type, flow and pressure to the system you

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 7 Jul 2026

 · 8 min read

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Solar Water Pumps

How Solar Water Pumping Systems Work

Panels, controller, pump and storage – how a solar pumping system actually delivers water, why storage beats batteries, and how to size an array for a

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 30 Jun 2026

 · 8 min read

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Pump Maintenance

Signs Your Water Pump Needs Maintenance

Pumps almost always warn you before they fail. The noises, pressure changes, current readings and seal symptoms that mean it is time to act – and

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 23 Jun 2026

 · 7 min read

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Industrial Pumps / Pump Maintenance

How to Reduce Pump Energy Consumption

Pumping is often the largest electrical load on a site. Eleven practical measures – from trimming impellers to fixing the pipework – ranked by what they

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 16 Jun 2026

 · 8 min read

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VSD & Controls

How VSDs Improve Pump Efficiency

What a variable speed drive actually does to a pump, which duties benefit and which do not, how to set one up properly, and the installation

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 9 Jun 2026

 · 7 min read

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Pump Maintenance

When to Repair or Replace a Water Pump

The 50 per cent rule, whole-life cost, efficiency loss and spares availability – a structured way to decide whether to rebuild a pump or put in

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 2 Jun 2026

 · 7 min read

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Sanitation / Sewage Pumps

How Sewage Pumps Work

Grinder, vortex, channel and chopper impellers, wet wells, guide rails and duty-standby control – how sewage pumping stations are built and why they block.

All Access Holding Technical Team

 · 26 May 2026

 · 7 min read

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