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Variable speed · 1,100 W
Speck BADU VS EcoDrive Pool Pump
Speck BADU VS EcoDrive is a 1,100 W variable speed swimming pool pump registered under Australia’s Energy Rating (GEMS) scheme (registration APP0344).
- Nameplate power
- 1,100 W
- Variable speed
- Energy rating
- 6
- Annual electricity use
- 446 kWh
- Label: 446 kWh · 1.2 kWh per day
- Estimated running cost
- $143 / year
- $1,428 over 10 years
- Efficiency (WEF)
- 40.9 L/Wh · 138 L/min at the label test point
1% less electricity than the median of 13 comparable 1,000–1,249 w variable speed pool pump registrations (451 kWh a year on the label basis). It uses less than 54% of them. At your rates that is about $2 a year less than the median, $16 over 10 years.
How efficient is it for its size?
Cohort: every currently registered 1,000–1,249 w variable speed pool pump sold in Australia, counted once per registration, on the label usage basis.
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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
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kWh and cost on the label usage basis; the product page adjusts to your usage.
Compare BADU VS EcoDrive with another pool pump
Speck BADU VS EcoDrive specifications
- Pump type
- Variable speed
- Nameplate input power
- 1,100 W
- Measured input power
- 1,100 W
- Current
- 3.9 A
- Weighted energy factor (WEF)
- 40.902 L/Wh
- Daily run time to pump 50,000 L
- 6.06 h
- Effective flow at test point (derived)
- 138 L/min
- “High” (as registered)
- 1,018.1
- “Low” (as registered)
- 1,018.1
- Annual energy (label)
- 446.2 kWh
- Star rating index
- 6.11
- Country of manufacture
- –
“High” and “Low” are published in the registration without a documented unit; we do not interpret them. Effective flow is derived from the label test (50,000 L in the daily run time).
Other model numbers on registration APP0344
Australian GEMS registration details
- Registration number
- APP0344
- GEMS registration id
- 165197
- Status
- approved
- Available until
- 26 November 2029
- Registered for sale in
- Australia, Fiji, New Zealand
- Family
- –
- Regulatory standard
- Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Swimming Pool Pump-units) Determination 2021
- Test standard
- AS 5102.1-2019
Source: Australian Government Energy Rating (GEMS) registration data, DCCEEW via data.gov.au (CC BY 3.0 AU). Dataset published 9 February 2026; last checked 20 September 2026. Manufacturer: continentalwater.com.au. How the derived figures are calculated.