On Mon, 02 May 2005 18:29:57 -0500, Rick Morel
wrote:


No. I spent 2 1/2 years cruising with a watermaker. The trick is to
use it every day, then run some product water, about 1/2 a gallon,
through to rinse out the sal****er. Pickle if it won't be used for
more than about 3 days in warm weather, 5 in cold. Pickling is a snap
- just put a capful in 2 qts. of water and run it through. Then it's
good for a year.

Add a "silty water kit" or make your own. Just another inline filter
with a 5-micron element. I've made water pretty much everywhere with
this.

On last note. Don't get one larger than you need. Then you're wasting
Amp-hours and water to run it. It takes X Amp-hours per gallon of
water, whether you're making 1-1/2 gallons per hour (mine) or 500
gallons per hour.

Rick
http://www.morelr.com/specter

Thanks for the primer. I didn't know you needed 20% of the production
to effectively flush the salt water afterwards.

R.