Tank senders are cheap conductivity probes. When the water completes the circuit you get a light. As you can imagine repair/replacement is a constant battle since corrosion in a water environment is nearly impossible to stop. I installed the iseries tank level monitoring system from techedge. It uses external "moda" sensors which I believe work on a capacitive coupling theory kinda similar to the screen on your smartphone. The nice thing is that a single unit can monitor up to 8 tanks AND the level can be calibrated to the volume in 10% increments... Oh and installation is completey external to the tank. https://tankedge.com/products.html
As for the force10 ignitor you should find that it is powered by a AA battery. Many of these fail because the batteries leak juice and corrode the wiring. Repair as needed. As for replacing - I haven't investigated and simply keep a multitude of lighters onboard. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 3:07 PM Maurice Poulin via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > First season with new to us C&C MKII and so far so good! What a great > boat and still far from having discovered everything about it. Did find out > that it is wicked fast, I am a novice sailor at best and these days we are > in the frontrunners at every Wednesday night club races! Anyways, I am > slowly compiling a to-do list for the fall and spring off seasons and > seeking your valuable knowledge on little fixes. > > 1) The electrical panel on the boat has tank level monitors for fresh and > waste tank but these do not work, is this something that can be fixed? I > assume there must be some type of sender unit on the tanks but before I > tear everything apart, I am curious to see if you have run into this issue. > > 2) The propane stove (force ten) has a non fonctional electronic ignitor > that would nice to replace or update, if anyone has insight on this would > be grateful to hear about it. > > Little things that can add convenience is always nice! > > Cheers and happy sailing, > > Maurice Poulin > Monoloy, Ottawa > CNC 30 MKII > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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