Hello,
I am in
San Diego. I installed the 40E prior to our cruises to
Mexico in 2009 and in 2010. I am afraid our distance cruises are over due to bad knees, etc. My
boat is
for sale and I am sort of parting out the boat to be able to lower the
price.
The 40E is very compact. So I put it is the
head cabinet. I was able to plumb the seawater and the brine discharge by a tee below the
head sink. We collected the purified
water in flexible Coleman 2 1/2 gal. containers. We did not want to mix the pure
water with
dock water in our
tanks. it worked out well. When the
tanks were getting low, we simply poured the good water into the tank from the
deck fill. For
cooking and drinking, we restricted our use of the
reverse osmosis water. We always tested the water with a PPM meter and were able to get as low a 200.
With the
solar panels producing amps, we would generally run the
water maker when the sun was high in the sky.
I estimate the 40E weighs about 20 lbs. Thanks for writing
Lee Pryor