Dennis had a good call with heat shrink and painting with liquid
electrical tape. I took made my heat shrink about two inches longer
than the connection, and injected marine silicone inside with a
syringe. When the shrunk, silicone gushed out the ends. It has been
wet often.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but my 12 year old Rule pumps and float switches
are still doing fine. I have a little 500 as the primary pump, and a
big one that stays up on a platform about six inches off the bilge, just
in case. The 500 does get clogged up with bilge gunk, and I just
replaced it because they can't be taken apart and cleaned out. One
thing I do is take a garden hose to 3/4" adapter and flush the hose out
with high pressure dock water. I'll also backflush the pump with the
garden hose.
Most of the float switches I've seen fail are really due to bad wiring.
I've seen plain crimp connections just sitting in the bilge, and it's no
wonder the wire rots out. The worst, if you can believe it, was just
wires twisted together and covered with electrical tape. No kidding. I
found that down here in Mexico, as the sport fishing boat was sinking at
the dock. The guy came back to town, and when I told him that I'd saved
his boat he didn't even say thanks. Power boaters. (It probably didn't
help that I said whoever did the wiring ought to be taken out and shot.)
Wal
you CnC-List wrote:
I ran a rule float switch to one which failed that first year.
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