Med boaters - will you get to your boat this year?

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Halberg Rassey great sailing boats I like them :)

Thx as you drift S you enter Itama country. Hard for none the Italian to understand.
Bay of Portofino? =Nice place .

Until they dominate Naples area .Every sods got one .

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Finished cleaning the black tank float sender...ready to go first thing tomorrow...a week of perfect weather to look forward to...even the sea is warm
Anyhow I had an idea...I will share it with the forum...even though it could cost me a fortune...
Cleaning the black tank float sender is a nightmare job because the sender is almost always difficult and messy (or downright impossible) to remove....so you have to clean it in situ with your hands in the tank...yuk!
My idea is to put a hole in the black tank screwtop lid...and place the sender in the lid...simply disconnect the sender wires and unscrew the lid and remove the sender for easy cleaning....I know, genius
 
Bouba said:
Finished cleaning the black tank float sender...ready to go first thing tomorrow...a week of perfect weather to look forward to...even the sea is warm
Anyhow I had an idea...I will share it with the forum...even though it could cost me a fortune...
Cleaning the black tank float sender is a nightmare job because the sender is almost always difficult and messy (or downright impossible) to remove....so you have to clean it in situ with your hands in the tank...yuk!
My idea is to put a hole in the black tank screwtop lid...and place the sender in the lid...simply disconnect the sender wires and unscrew the lid and remove the sender for easy cleaning....I know, genius
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Bouba, get yourself a IR US tank sender, never need to remove it and clean it as there's nothing actually touching the sh!t in the tank ?
Philippi do some, got one after BartW recommendation, v.happy with it!
[got to get one to match the gauge you have though EU/US thing]

V.

EDIT: sorry it's not infrared, it's ultrasound!
 
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vas said:
Bouba, get yourself a IR tank sender, never need to remove it and clean it as there's nothing actually touching the sh!t in the tank ?
Philippi do some, got one after BartW recommendation, v.happy with it!
[got to get one to match the gauge you have though EU/US thing]

V.
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Yes.. I have wondered about them...but I thought that they weren’t that accurate....just empty, half, full
 
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is the one I have. Obvs what you see is info processed through NMEA2000 following suitable conversion in my custom arduinos. However, it is for sure accurate. You need to select the length and make sure that empty and full relate to the values (in V) it is outputing. Cannot help in that I'm afraid

V.
 
vas said:
Non contact level measurement (UTV) | philippi elektrische systeme GmbH %

is the one I have. Obvs what you see is info processed through NMEA2000 following suitable conversion in my custom arduinos. However, it is for sure accurate. You need to select the length and make sure that empty and full relate to the values (in V) it is outputing. Cannot help in that I'm afraid

V.
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I thought that you place a few sensors on the side of the tank at different levels .....but you only need one of those?
 
Bouba said:
I thought that you place a few sensors on the side of the tank at different levels .....but you only need one of those?
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yes, it fits on exactly the same fancy/assymetrical 5 stud hole you have in your tank. It fires an ultrasound signal every x secs/mins don't remember does the calc and outputs a voltage that your gauge pics and shows how full is your tank. Obvs, you have to measure the height of the tank in the area of the sender (or measure the normal rod sender length) and order accordingly. Think of it as a tiny depth sender like the one you have at the bottom of your hull.
if you have the current sender data, you could ask them for a proper match.

V.
 
vas said:
yes, it fits on exactly the same fancy/assymetrical 5 stud hole you have in your tank. It fires an ultrasound signal every x secs/mins don't remember does the calc and outputs a voltage that your gauge pics and shows how full is your tank. Obvs, you have to measure the height of the tank in the area of the sender (or measure the normal rod sender length) and order accordingly. Think of it as a tiny depth sender like the one you have at the bottom of your hull.
if you have the current sender data, you could ask them for a proper match.

V.
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Ok...this could be a good winter project ?
 
Next mo Bo after the hull form ( sorry lads ) look at the engineering the ER access to stuff .
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rear cabin bunk
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There easy to access it . I have actually removed it and serviced it new impeller + blade .
The central hydraulic unit for Passerelle/ rudder s / flaps is the thing with the pipes.

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central 42 K BTU chiller it’s silent btw . The rudder s stuff easy to get at . Another black water pump shot .
You can see the two copper strips that Earth / bond everything to external anodes as well . partly painted in the middle of the shot . All my metal tanks are connected . I did ask Bouba if his fuel tank is bonded to a anode ?
 
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