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From: Philip Lange (no email)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2006 - 14:28:41 EST
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Rick,
It would be helpful to know how many people are on board or your daily
water requirements. How are you going to supply power to run it?
I had both a Power Survivor, inexpensive, but costly to maintain. Power
requirements for water delivered were high IMO and it never delivered the
advertised output. I also bought a Spectra. If you are looking for a
serious unit. Spectra is the winner hands down in my book. Low power
requirements and makes water by the bucket full.
I gave the Little Wonder by Village Marine a good look, but went with he
Spectra even though it cost a lot more. It is quiet and sips power.
Delivered more than it was advertised. Mine delivered better than 8 gph.
And all the time I used it, (4 years in the Caribbean) never had any
maintenance problems. Had to replace the membrane once in Honduras. Spectra
shipped me one pronto - good folks to deal with.
One thing though. Any water maker you get will have to be regularly used or
it will give problems. Have to make water at least every other day in the
tropics or nasty stuff starts to grow. Pickling and such is a pain and easy
to forget to keep up if you are not using the unit. You just don't pickle
it once and let it sit idle for a year, then expect to membrane to be OK.
At least that was my experience. Also figure on installing a two stage
pre-filter for the intake water. Make sure you have a salinity checker too.
Like to know more about that tow behind desalination unit - sounds neat.
Got a web address for it?
Hope this helps.
Philip
At 02:12 AM 3/17/2006, you wrote:
>I'm doing some research on an efficient water maker for a 33 ft
>sailboat. There are several out there and all, of course, say they
>are the best. I also found one that is a towed unit that can be used
>manually or with an optional 12v motor called a water log. Cost,
>weight, size, maintenance are concerns.
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>Those of you out there with water makers, what has been your
>experience? What unit do you have and would you buy the same unit
>again? Why/why not? If not, what unit would you buy and why? Has the
>capacity per hour been close to what the brochure said or has water
>temperature, etc. cut that down to perhaps two thirds or even less of
>the advertised capacity?
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>Thanks.
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>Rick
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