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The day I forgot my boat had a bilge pump switch in the wrong spot
I was anchored near Port Townsend last summer and heard a weird sloshing sound. Turns out I'd accidentally kicked the bilge pump switch to "manual" while moving stuff around, and the automatic float switch never kicked in. By the time I figured it out, I had about 4 inches of water in the cabin and had to hand-bail with a bucket. Anyone else label their switches with colored tape or something to avoid this?
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the_anna6d ago
Wait, are you telling me a manual setting overrides the auto float switch? I always figured they worked independently, but now I'm rethinking how I set up my whole system.
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faithbaker6d ago
Wait, they share the same controller? That changes everything.
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