Looks like a nice device, but I'd prefer one that can tell me where where the water is coming from after a brisk sail. After 30 years in IT building redundant systems, I learned that it's often the simplest thing that fails, and if you don't know what to do when it does (and it's backup also fails), no amount of redundancy will save you. But it is also very good to know when something is behaving our of the ordinary, like a pump cycling more often or longer than usual. I once almost lost a large storage array once when I discovered the failure alerting systems were not working, so we all assumed that the "hotspare" drives were all operative. I happened to notice an error light one day, only to find that three of the four spare drives had already failed (part of a bad batch of drives...). So warning systems are great, but procedures to check that they are working are also critical to avoid a false sense of security.
For me, almost every time I arrive at the boat, I manually cycle the bilge pump, and listen to the noise. If it takes longer than usual to empty the bilge, I will investigate. If so, the next thing I will do is manually lift the float switch to ensure it's still working. But I am rarely away for more than a week, and have a second pump with a higher float switch in case the primary fails, so this is enough redundancy. -- Shawn Wright shawngwri...@gmail.com S/V Callisto, 1974 C&C 35 https://www.facebook.com/SVCallisto On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:51 AM Dennis C. via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Anybody got one of these? > > > https://bluebgi.com/collections/prodcuts/products/advanced-bilge-control-panel > > > Looks like a nice all in one bilge panel. > > Bit more reasonably priced than the Water Witch: > > https://waterwitchinc.com/product/epanel-c-series-cycle-coutner/ > > However, the Water Witch tracks 24 hr, 7 day and 14 day cycles. > > Yeah, I could wire up a $10 cycle counter but that's just not how Touche' > rolls. :) > > Dennis C. > Touche' 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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