<[email protected]> wrote: > I know what you mean about the Rule switches. I use them but have > lots of > spares on hand. However:... > > I have a Johnson brand bilge pump and switch in my dinghy that works > very > well. It is a small pump, like you would expect for a dinghy, and > includes > a small (about twice the size of a cigarette package) switch that > attaches > to the pump. It is a sealed plastic box with two wires coming out > of it. > Apparently it uses capacitance sensing. You can test it by holding > two > fingers on two spots on the case. It gets mostly rain water but has > worked > well since I installed it a couple of years ago. ---------------------------------- Would you consider installing this device in a difficult to access part of the bilge of the mother ship? ---------------------------------
> Many years ago I saw a float switch on a friend's boat that used a > plastic > toilet float, piece of 1/4" threaded rod and a normal household > toggle > switch in a plastic handy-box. He said it worked well. So I made > one on > my boat with a ss spring to pull the switch up (ON) and a string > tied to a > gallon milk jug partially filled with sand as a float in the bilge. > It has > worked flawlessly for three decades. The switch handle has a hole > drilled > in it with a wire gizmo to attach the spring and the string. -------------------------------- Would you consider the above as a marketable device to be installed and maintained by the mechanically challenged or installed on a smaller (30 ft or less) boat? Lew _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/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.liveaboardonline.com/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
