LavvieBrush
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Has anyone any exprience of fitting and using the electrifrying bog conversion? a)is it easy to fit b)is it quiet?
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Electric Bog
- Thread starter LavvieBrush
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I would be wary of a swap, Mr Brush. This is a girlie-requested thing, but the net result is not an overall enhanced bogtime experience. Most units are certainly NOT quieter but in fact much louder: there is a macerator (mincer) at the exit which screams at moderate levels to start, higher levels when a bit older and with an ear-splitting scream if an unmaceratable item goes down there such as an olive stone or cherry pip, which means that these are Banned Substances and everyone has to keep an eagle eye out for anyone found near any olives, otherwise you have to do the clever olive-stone-catching gambit and fish it out. Even with ordinary use, everyone on board will wake up if the bog is used, even on a 50 footer. For this reason I have heard of people with + loos keeping at least 1 manual, for quieter nightime operation. Nonetheless, leccky ones are less repulsive for swmbos. Apart from the waking everyone up.
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Trevethan
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I put a new leccy bog in after old Brydon heads died and would cost stupid money to fix.
Noisy yes... kind of like a coffee grinder... but swmbo is impressed and now uses onboard heads instead of going to marina/home/hotel.
We have two heads compartments one near aft cabin where electric bog is and and manual one in forepeak. Due to noise, will probably switch them round
Dead easy to fit. Except we had to switch motor to side and I forgot which pipe went where..... not nice if you get it wrong, but eventually sorted it.. still waiting for the instructions from mailspeed.....
Biggest concern is power draw.. something daft like 40 amps so big cables needed
Anyway in most respects a lot less hassle... when they go wrong, swap the motor... No fiddling with service kits, no explosions (unless you forget to open outlet seacock)
Plus we hjave the manual for nocturnal visits/times when we are worried about batteries.
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Noisy yes... kind of like a coffee grinder... but swmbo is impressed and now uses onboard heads instead of going to marina/home/hotel.
We have two heads compartments one near aft cabin where electric bog is and and manual one in forepeak. Due to noise, will probably switch them round
Dead easy to fit. Except we had to switch motor to side and I forgot which pipe went where..... not nice if you get it wrong, but eventually sorted it.. still waiting for the instructions from mailspeed.....
Biggest concern is power draw.. something daft like 40 amps so big cables needed
Anyway in most respects a lot less hassle... when they go wrong, swap the motor... No fiddling with service kits, no explosions (unless you forget to open outlet seacock)
Plus we hjave the manual for nocturnal visits/times when we are worried about batteries.
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vyv_cox
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When the seal fails, the motor fills with the bog contents. I speak from experience.
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LavvieBrush
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Yuch! Is that how you damaged your hand?
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vyv_cox
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No, that was years ago, in Douarnenez, where the sight of me hosing the internals of an electric motor on the pontoon confirmed many French yachtsmen's impression of Brits.
The hand problem was courtesy a totally different Frenchman, M. Dupeytron and his contracture. Stitches come out on Thursday, when maybe I shall be able to type using two hands.
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The hand problem was courtesy a totally different Frenchman, M. Dupeytron and his contracture. Stitches come out on Thursday, when maybe I shall be able to type using two hands.
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Re: And what\'s wrong with that?
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ecudc
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who eats olive and cherry stones except by mistake!
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LadyInBed
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. . . and don't even think of fitting a holding tank to lece bog, it will fill up in no time. The amount of water that is pumped through is feeenominal.
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Gunfleet
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We once had two screaming mincers who lived next door to us but I've never had one on the boat. At least I don't think I have. I have a teapot and a spare. Is that any good?
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h4nym
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Was seriously planning to "upgrade" my manual to a leccy one to help "amateurs" (friends and colleagues) thru their (inevitably drunken) oblutions.
But on the river, I have (and am happy) to use my holding tank... but for god's sake - this weather has meant several parties on board - for the first time ever I've had to pump out twice in a week!
Tanks for the advice, folks - mine's staying manual. Got a laminator at work... I feel a destruction sheet coming on! Flick the switch to wet bowl...
Oh well - one down, two to go.. anyone got any objection to ice makers and/or microwaves? ;-)
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But on the river, I have (and am happy) to use my holding tank... but for god's sake - this weather has meant several parties on board - for the first time ever I've had to pump out twice in a week!
Tanks for the advice, folks - mine's staying manual. Got a laminator at work... I feel a destruction sheet coming on! Flick the switch to wet bowl...
Oh well - one down, two to go.. anyone got any objection to ice makers and/or microwaves? ;-)
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MainlySteam
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I am intrigued by the various references to SWMBO and girlie's attractions to macerator heads. There must be some worthwhile psychology in that worth knowing by us downtrodden males.
John
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andyball
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think it depends on the bog actually....some use 4.5 l, some rather less than 1/2 that amount.
Re noise : a bog "conversion" may not be a "noisy" macerator type, but a leccy motor to pump in the same fashion as before....so not much more noise.
Get a catalogue from lee sanitation....I don't think they're out & out liars, so something described as "near silent" can't be that noisy, can it?.
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Re noise : a bog "conversion" may not be a "noisy" macerator type, but a leccy motor to pump in the same fashion as before....so not much more noise.
Get a catalogue from lee sanitation....I don't think they're out & out liars, so something described as "near silent" can't be that noisy, can it?.
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