You know man. Tell us all please And does it matter: wet or dry on these older sailboats. A wet bilge is a wet bilge. Hard to avoid on most 1970’s designs so probably possible on most older C&C designs. Actually a wet bilge is not that hard to live with on my boat the way i enjoy sailing.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 4:52 PM Dennis C. via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > I, like many of us, am sometimes off the boat for days/weeks. I'd like to > track the bilge cycles to indicate a problem. > > There are several options. > > 1. Buy a nice purpose built bilge cycle counter like the one from > Water Witch for $80 or so > 2. Replace my existing bilge switch with the Watch Witch ePanel > switch/counter for $180 > 3. Buy a cheap non-marine 12 vdc counter for $5 > > The Water Witch counters provide 14 day, 7 day and 24 hour counts. That > could be more helpful the cheap unit's single count from when you left the > boat. I like the more expensive options but at the same > time................. > > I guess I have 3 questions. > > 1. Do any of you use a cycle counter and do you find it helpful? > 2. How would one wire the cheap counter? I suspect you just parallel > it off the back of the switch across the "auto" out and the ground. Each > time the float switch activates the counter would see voltage and count. > 3. Does anyone have a better simple elegant solution? > > Dennis C. > Touche' 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile
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