Yes it uses about 40 amps to treat a flush, but only for a short time. The actual amp-hour usage is not large, only under 3 amp-hours per flush.
Eric Thompson S/V Procrastinator South San Francisco [email protected] 3 AH is one of our cabin lights on (LED) on for the entire day. We currently (pardon the expression) have 5 aboard (3 for 6 months, then just we two, but with guests from time to time). We'd go through - with our current load - probably close to 100AH a day. That's about the refrigeration load... We thought it through very thoroughly - and took out the genset (like having a Massey Ferguson in the salon) and the air conditioning (power hog, space hog, more complexity) at the same time as the LectraSans... We've slept under blankets nearly every night in the tropics and never will be dock queens, so the AC was superfluousa and valuable to others. The genset was so loud that we determined that other than for an emergency, we'd never use it - so out it came! See our photo gallery for all that went on in the 3-year refit... L8R Skip, still running the (Honda eu2000i, portable) generator from time to time despite the heavy wind and solar inputs we have...
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