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Old 10-20-2018, 09:48 PM   #4
sdowney717
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City: Seaford Va on Poquoson River, VA
Vessel Name: Old Glory
Vessel Model: 1970 Egg Harbor 37 extended salon model
Join Date: Jan 2016
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I use standard non electronic pumps and switches.
Since I have 5 bilge pumps, any one pump can fail and I have backups ready to work.
2 in one compartment, and 3 in another.
One pump's switch is set lower and is then the primary pump, the other switch sits higher and a third sits completely out of any bilge water. So failures of a lower in the water pump mean I have working backups.

They are all Rule pumps. I have taken apart old Rule pumps and even they still had not worn down their motor brushes past half way point. Every failure for me, with a bilge pump, has always been its water detection switch.
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