Fire Pump Controller Replacement in Melbourne
The controller is the brain of your fire pump. When it fails, your pump may not start in a fire — and in our experience servicing fire pumps across Melbourne, controller faults are among the most common defects we find during AS 1851 routine servicing.
Why Fire Pump Controllers Fail
Melbourne pump rooms are hard on electronics. Basement pump rooms are damp, poorly ventilated, and often flood. We regularly find controllers with corroded terminals, failed battery chargers, faulty pressure switch inputs, and obsolete circuit boards that can no longer be repaired. Many older controllers are proprietary “black boxes” — when one component fails, the whole cabinet has to go.
Diesel and Electric Controller Replacement
Melfire replaces both diesel fire pump controllers and electric fire pump controllers to AS 2941, including jockey (pressure maintenance) pump controllers. We manufacture our own pump controllers in Melbourne — including jacking pump controllers and SmartGen fire pump controllers — modern, well-supported units with readily available parts and programming, a far better long-term proposition than the obsolete proprietary controllers they replace. A proper controller replacement in Melbourne involves more than swapping a cabinet: battery systems, charger circuits, pressure sensing lines, alarm outputs to the FIP/ASE, and the mains isolation all need to be correctly configured and tested.
Because Melfire holds an ESV Registered Electrical Contractor (REC) licence as well as VBA plumbing registrations, we complete the electrical work, the hydraulic connections, and the commissioning ourselves — no subcontracting the critical parts of a life safety system.
What a Controller Replacement Includes
- Assessment of the existing controller, batteries and wiring
- Supply and installation of a new AS 2941 compliant controller
- New start batteries and charger commissioning (diesel sets)
- Pressure switch and sensing line checks
- Full start/stop, alarm and failure-mode testing
- Certificate of Electrical Safety and test records for your ESM log
Servicing Pump Rooms Across Melbourne
We replace fire pump controllers in commercial buildings, apartment towers, owners corporation sites and industrial facilities across metropolitan Melbourne. If your controller is showing fault lights, failing weekly tests, or is simply too old to source parts for, don’t wait for it to fail in an emergency.
Melfire Pty Ltd — Est. 2004 | VBA Building Design (Services) Reg. 100018 | VBA Plumbing Reg. 124876 | ESV REC 20655
Call Melfire on 1300 134 971 or contact us online for a fire pump controller assessment. You can also read more about our approach to fire pump systems in Melbourne.