Follow up on my moldy water tank problem: After wrestling with my tanks for a whole weekend last month, and little success, I left the boat for a month with 2 gallons of bleach in a full tank. Just

I use lead acid batteries on SM243 and get about 2 1/2 years out of them. Make sure your charger isn't cooking them with too high a charging voltage when they are full...that happened to me with my

Hi Derick: OOPS!, Yes, indeed, I posted the wrong link. Thanks for catching that and posting the correct one. Gary Silver PS Where is Bailey's Boatyard? I should know as I have been on the hard

Hi Graham: Heat and usage, along with the type of usage, and the type of batteries is what eventually leads to their demise. There are only so many charge-discharge cycles stored in a battery and

Hi Gary Thanks for your input /Ann-Sofie S/Y Lady Annila. SM 232 Skickat från min iPad 15 nov 2013 kl. 18:47 skrev "amelliahona" <no_reply@...>:

Just one additional note. I completely agree will Bill's description and will add the following. On my Amel SM 2000 SN 335, 160 l/hr Dessalator water maker, the high pressure valve on the control

Hi have you had the batteries load tested? When you say the boat is in use, what is the major method of charge the motor or gen set. The alternators on the motor will most likely not top off the

My Trojan 27-TMX batteries are 6 years old and have actualy 66% of there total capacity (400 Ah ->280Ah) This needs to equalize the batteries (at 31V see documentation) after this

It depends on so many variables that you will get a wide range of answers, but the range that I hear from active cruisers is 2 to 4 years. Those mostly plugged into shore power can go for ever. That

I have Trojan Lead acid batteries on my SM SULA. the first set I owned lasted 7 years which by all account is pretty good. The boat was kept predominantly in Northern Europe and was was plugged into

Thanks Bill and Ian! Will follow your advice /Ann-Sofie Skickat från min iPad 15 nov 2013 kl. 08:50 skrev "Ian & Judy Jenkins" <ianjudyjenkins@...>:

Hi Ann- Sophie, We have had both problems on Pen Azen. A new tap can be bought from the Desalator agent in the UK --I will send on his details. We use this tap to check on

Ann-Sofie I am fairly certain that the salt under the knob is from a slight leak from the pressure regulator, when the system is off...from the looks of accumulation of salt, I believe it is leaking

Read the other messages in the same thread. There is a urlmtomour blog where you can see the pictures. Right now that articel is the newesr, so just try www.sailinglife.se Regards Ann-Sofie. S/Y Lady

Because the search facility on this revised site is sodifficult I set out below a message that I posted on 28 June 2012. Martinde Jong speaks perfect English and no doubt Spanish and French. He is

I had to put the photos on our blog http://sailinglife.se/2013/11/14/desalinator-d501998-watermaker/ Don't answer on the blog, place your answer here on the forum instead. More easy to follow

Sorry I was to fast to click on "send"...... I am Ann-Sofie on Lady Annila SM232 But I have to solv the photo thing because I can't up load to the album. I will come back with an address where

OK, I thought that kanalmamman looked familiar...I checked my email for kanalmamman"at"hotmail.com and found that it belongs to Jonas Svanberg and Ann-Sofie S/Y Lady Annila an Amel Super Maramu,#232

First, I do not know who you are. Second, I do not know your boat model or hull number, nor do I know your current location. Third, I paged through all of the photo albums and could not find an