What is important to know about pumps?
The singularly most important fact to remember about pumps is that they draw more current than you might think. Potable water and shower drain pumps are particularly heavy users of electricity but are fortunately not on for long periods of time. Ensure suitably heavy cable is used, that the pumps are easily accessible for cleaning and that excessive heat build up cannot happen in their vicinity. Shower drain pumps should always be used with a strum box as hair in particular has a habit of destroying expensive pumps. Ensure that the discharge through the hull is the regulation height above the exterior water level. A bilge pump should always be separately wired directly to one of your batteries and must have its own inline fuse. Wired in this way and used in conjunction with an external or integral float switch, the bilge will be kept pumped out even when you are not there. The downside is that the pump will be regularly discharging your chosen battery! We list control panels which allo
