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a Big Pump
Bought a 3700 gph Rule pump for the Tolman just in case I take a lot
of water. My normal bilge pump is a 750 gph one. I intend to find some smooth bore hose for it and some oversized wire to power it. Downside is, it was expensive and I will probably never use it. Might even get a dedicated battery for it. |
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Frogwatch wrote:
Bought a 3700 gph Rule pump for the Tolman just in case I take a lot of water. My normal bilge pump is a 750 gph one. I intend to find some smooth bore hose for it and some oversized wire to power it. Downside is, it was expensive and I will probably never use it. Might even get a dedicated battery for it. Make sure you put that battery in the lowest part of your boat. -- Birther-Deather-Tenther-Teabagger: Idiots All |
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:37:03 -0400, H the K
wrote: Make sure you put that battery in the lowest part of your boat. Good idea. Drown the ****er and smell the chlorine. Casady |
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Richard Casady wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:37:03 -0400, H the K wrote: Make sure you put that battery in the lowest part of your boat. Good idea. Drown the ****er and smell the chlorine. Casady Absolutely, and its occupant, too. -- Birther-Deather-Tenther-Teabagger: Idiots All |
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H the K wrote:
Richard Casady wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:37:03 -0400, H the K wrote: Make sure you put that battery in the lowest part of your boat. Good idea. Drown the ****er and smell the chlorine. Casady Absolutely, and its occupant, too. Take this bull**** somewhere else, WAFA. |
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On Sep 17, 11:33*am, Frogwatch wrote:
Bought a 3700 gph Rule pump for the Tolman just in case I take a lot of water. *My normal bilge pump is a 750 gph one. *I intend to find some smooth bore hose for it and some oversized wire to power it. Downside is, it was expensive and I will probably never use it. *Might even get a dedicated battery for it. Wow, to me that's a bit of overkill, but if need be uyou could probably use it for jet propulsion if necessary. ?;^ Q |
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"Frogwatch" wrote in message
... Bought a 3700 gph Rule pump for the Tolman just in case I take a lot of water. My normal bilge pump is a 750 gph one. I intend to find some smooth bore hose for it and some oversized wire to power it. Downside is, it was expensive and I will probably never use it. Might even get a dedicated battery for it. I was looking at a sailing magazine a couple of months ago. I saw an article about someone connecting a hose to the water pump, then using the engine to suck water out of the boat. Seems like that would cut out a lot of the battery problems because it would engine not battery doing the work. -- Nom=de=Plume |
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nom=de=plume wrote:
"Frogwatch" wrote in message ... Bought a 3700 gph Rule pump for the Tolman just in case I take a lot of water. My normal bilge pump is a 750 gph one. I intend to find some smooth bore hose for it and some oversized wire to power it. Downside is, it was expensive and I will probably never use it. Might even get a dedicated battery for it. I was looking at a sailing magazine a couple of months ago. I saw an article about someone connecting a hose to the water pump, then using the engine to suck water out of the boat. Seems like that would cut out a lot of the battery problems because it would engine not battery doing the work. Caveat: If the pump sucks all the water out and burns up, you have lost the use of your engine. The bypass valve must be manned constantly to avoid that calamity. |
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:33:19 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote: Bought a 3700 gph Rule pump for the Tolman just in case I take a lot of water. My normal bilge pump is a 750 gph one. I intend to find some smooth bore hose for it and some oversized wire to power it. Downside is, it was expensive and I will probably never use it. Might even get a dedicated battery for it. I think that's a good plan, with a couple of caveats: It's a good idea to derate the capacity of bilge pumps by 50% or so to compensate for head loss and hose friction. It's also important to remember that bilge pump float-switches have a proven record of unreliability, leading to the need for a manual override switch, and possibly the desirability of a second, totally separate, pump/float-switch combo. No one has ever complained about having too much bilge pump capacity. If the cockpit of an open boat swamps with big water you are only seconds from a loss of stability and capsize. |
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:33:19 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote: Bought a 3700 gph Rule pump for the Tolman just in case I take a lot of water. My normal bilge pump is a 750 gph one. I intend to find some smooth bore hose for it and some oversized wire to power it. Downside is, it was expensive and I will probably never use it. Might even get a dedicated battery for it. You should only have to match the wire guage of the leads on your pump for your wiring. -- Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service -------http://www.NewsDemon.com------ Unlimited Access, Anonymous Accounts, Uncensored Broadband Access |
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