Foot pump in water supply

[MoodySabre]

Re: What\'s the reason?

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It also means that you don't have to have the batteries on or use any more power to fill the kettle.

[/ QUOTE ]Oh, come on, filling a kettle uses about a squillionth of an amp-hour.

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It's the whole thing - switch on the battery, switch on the pump and wait for it to pressurise, use a bit of water, repressurises, switch it all off again. I don't like leaving batteries on if you are not using them - maybe that's daft but that's just how I do it. Two pushes of foot pedal - job done.

 

[Roberto]

Re: What\'s the reason?

I would add: reduce water consumption when away for a few days from port /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

with the electric pump on SWMBO is capable of emptying a few hundred litres in a couple of days, whereas with a foot pump she will be exhausted at about 20 litres a day /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[johnalison]

Re: What\'s the reason?

Though I don't indulge in such uncivilised pursuits as watering my spirits, I use my foot-pump when washing out the raw-water filter for a similar reason, to control the output while using both hands.

 

[Pinetops]

I have been thinking along the same lines but not just for drinking water. I want to be able to pressurise the whole cold and hot water system manually as back up for battery or electric pump failure. My electric pump and filter is in a cockpit locker which would not be an accessible location for operating the back-up. It seems to me that if I locate the manual pump downstream of the electric pump at any convenient location in the in-line cold feed , it should pressurise the entire system and allow water to be drawn off at any cold or hot tap. Any observations most welcome.

 

[pvb]

How many engines do you have?

 

[huldah]

The reason I am considering fitting a foot pump, is to reduce water wastage.

Philip