captaindale
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2011
- Messages
- 46
My boat has a battery control switch with the positions Battery #1...both...Battery#2 and Off. I have been told to put the switch in the off position when the boat is docked. I have also been told that the bilge pump will automatically kick on even when the master switch is in the "off" position. I had my boat parked in my driveway while away for 2 days and we had several serious rain showers while I was gone. Could it be that the pump received so much duty that the battery went down and the pump did not finish pumping out the settlement in the bottom of the transom. I had disconnected my cord from my on board trickel charger before leaving to clear the area for the person that cuts my grass and forgot to plug it back in before leaving. I charged both batterys up last night with the trickle charger and filled the lower area with water to see if the bilge pump would kick on. It would only kick on automatically if the swich was in the Battery # 1 position . This tells me that it is not kicking on in the off position. I filled the area up with about 3 inches of water around the bilge pump to see if it would kick on in the off position but It would not unless I moved the position to battery #1. How high up the side of the bilge does the water have to go for it to kick on?
