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Old 02-06-2019, 07:40 AM   #20
Bkay
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Originally Posted by Benthic2 View Post
Are you planning on leaving the ice eater in the water all winter, or only on the occaisional days when it might be necessary ?
If I did an ice eater I'd take it out of the water if I didn't expect to use it in the upcoming week or so just to keep things off of it and extend the life.

I would only keep it in the water if we had an extended period where I expected ice and would only turn it on when things started icing. Some years it might never go in the water and other more extreme years it might go in twice or thrice for a few days to a week.

For a bubbler (which I'm just now starting to investigate) it looks like I'd keep the compressor unit in the boat house under cover and lay the hose down to the slip and that would stay in the water all winter. But I would only turn it on when things started icing over.
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