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Jere Lull
 
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In article ,
"Roger Long" wrote:

I'm finding the Aqualarm raw water flow alarm to be a much better idea
in theory than practice.



Considering the rest of the thread, I'm inclined to agree with you.

Our high-temp alarm has been tripped three times in 12+ years and 1500
hours. Once, a brand new impeller failed; the next was when a BIG seed
plugged the intake; the third was 55 minutes after firewalling to the
1-hour maximum RPMs. The Aqualarm wouldn't have caught that last.

For a few minutes' warning every 700 hours or so, I'm not sure that
another failure-prone gadget is worth it.

If an alarm goes off, you stop and figure out what's wrong. Adding an
alarm with such a high false-positive rate seems counter-productive.

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