Thanks another company to avoid... like raymarine refusing to help me with the older chartplotter on an previous boat.. and standard horizon..
I am here... just bought a boat out of storage and have been removing piles of rusted anchor chain... it is amazing what brillo pads do after 15yrs... On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Philip R. McGovern < [email protected]> wrote: > OK, maybe this will start a discussion: Sunshine came with a PUR 35 (now > Katadyn) powered water maker. I'm guessing the watermaker is about 10 years > old and I'd like to resurrect it if possible. I know very little about its > history but I did run it a couple of times as a test while we were on the > boat. The pump pumps and water comes out, but the pump leaks a little (I > think new seals should fix that) and the water tasted OK to me but it tested > off the scale. Our little Walmart water tester showed 999 parts per million > and blinking, so my co-captain is not happy with the output. > > My PO told me that he had used the watermaker but I don't know much about > how -- or whether - he maintained it. I'm hoping that the membrane is still > usable because, if it isn't, I'll probably not spend the money on a new one. > > I took the watermaker off the boat and brought it home, thinking I would > replace the seals and see about the membrane. I then discovered that it is > a 24 volt model and had been installed on a 12 volt boat. Don't ask me > why. > > I called Katadyn and tried to talk to a tech person but was told by a > rather snippy woman that they were too busy fixing things to take phone > calls and that she would have to relay any questions I have to them and she > would call me back with the answer -- kind of like talking to a doctor > through a nurse. I asked her to relay several questions but the only one > that she saw fit to answer was the one about the voltage mis-match. She > told me that the tech told her that the pump would run, which I already > knew, but that the motor would wear out a lot sooner and that it may already > be on its last legs. This made me even less excited about investing in a > new membrane. > > My question, FINALLY: Is there a cheap and simple gadget that I > can install in order to convert the 12 volts going to the pump into the 24 > volts that his watermaker seems to want -- maybe some sort of transformer? > > Also, if anyone knows of a way to test the membrane to see it it's usable, > that you be very helpful as well. That was one of my other questions that > the snippy woman at Katadyn saw fit to ignore. > > Many thanks for any help you can provide. > > Phil McGovern > s/v Sunshine > PDQ 36 > > > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Stephen Petri <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Haven't seen a post in days. >> >> -- >> Stephen Petri >> S/V Witchcraft, Ranger 33 No. 161 >> http://www.teamwitchcraft.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Liveaboard mailing list >> [email protected] >> To adjust your membership settings over the web >> http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard >> To subscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ >> >> To search the archives >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> The Mailman Users Guide can be found here >> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html >
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