Had to make a modification to my High Water Alarm today.
Overnight we had some torrential rainfall, and first thing this morning I got a call from my marina.
"There is an alarm going off on your boat."
:shock:
I knew right away what it was.
When I re-wired my batteries, I moved the solid state transducer for my High Water Alarm. It was zip-tied to the wiring going to my backup bilge pump.
High enough to not give false alarms, but low enough to alarm before the situation got out of hand.
Anyone who owns these boats know the rear hatch over the bilge / battery area is not water tight.
Well... we must have had a LOT of rain because my bilge was pretty wet all-over!
My deck must have had an inch of standing water on it because I've never seen the bilge so wet.
A simple wipe-down of the transducer with a towel silenced the alarm.
Now... how to correct the situation...
The transducer had been mounted 'flat', as seen in photo #1.
What I did was to rotate it 90 degrees as seen in photo #2...
Then I fabricated a 'rain hat' out of some scrap aluminum roof flashing, and attached it with zip-ties, as seen in photo #3.
Problem (hopefully) solved. 8)
Overnight we had some torrential rainfall, and first thing this morning I got a call from my marina.
"There is an alarm going off on your boat."
:shock:
I knew right away what it was.
When I re-wired my batteries, I moved the solid state transducer for my High Water Alarm. It was zip-tied to the wiring going to my backup bilge pump.
High enough to not give false alarms, but low enough to alarm before the situation got out of hand.
Anyone who owns these boats know the rear hatch over the bilge / battery area is not water tight.
Well... we must have had a LOT of rain because my bilge was pretty wet all-over!
My deck must have had an inch of standing water on it because I've never seen the bilge so wet.
A simple wipe-down of the transducer with a towel silenced the alarm.
Now... how to correct the situation...
The transducer had been mounted 'flat', as seen in photo #1.
What I did was to rotate it 90 degrees as seen in photo #2...
Then I fabricated a 'rain hat' out of some scrap aluminum roof flashing, and attached it with zip-ties, as seen in photo #3.
Problem (hopefully) solved. 8)
