Hello,
I was following the recent discussion about
bilge pumps but I seem to be having a different problem. I have a 3 way system (manual and automatic) with a
bilge counter and with a float switch that is positioned roughly 1/2 way up my bilge. My problem is two fold.
1st and most importantly I've noticed that my
pump will cycle extremely frequently (I've seen hundreds of counts in a day or two).
2ndly and even more concerning when I got on the
boat today the secondary backup
bilge pump was running and the float switch was completely submerged!! This is a new rule-a-magic switch. When I moved it up and down the primary
pump kicked on and I was able to empty the bilge. I left the
boat and came back 4 hours later and again happened upon the secondary pump running and exactly the same situation (I was able to get the primary float switch/pump to engage by manually moving the float switch up/down.
Ok... for the 1st problem I am no thinking that the issue is that the float switch is just not running the pump long enough. I angled it down (so that it kicks on sooner) and this seems to help but I still see that the level only goes down about an inch an a half before the pump kicks off. most troubling is that fact that the float switch does not disengage the pump at the bottom of its throw. It seems to me there should be an adjustment for this but after reading the manual for the switch and watching a few videos this does not seem to be the case.
Regarding #2 - other than replacing the float switch for the 2nd time I have no idea why it did not kick on once completely under
water and would very much appreciate any thoughts or suggestions!
Thanks!!!!