{"id":10220,"date":"2010-02-04T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/bilge-pump-control-and-alarms\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:00:00","slug":"bilge-pump-control-and-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/bilge-pump-control-and-alarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilge Pump Control and Alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"FPB-64-jan-27-10-details-117\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fpb-64-jan-27-10-details-117.jpg\" width=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You are looking at a pair of magnetic &#8220;reed&#8221; switches. The lower unit turns the bilge pump on\/off, while the upper gives an alarm signal if the pump fails to keep up. The gray plastic floats contain the magnet which controls the reed switch making the electrical contact.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the bilge pump, the reed switch is used to trigger a relay through which the current for the pump flows.<\/p>\n<p>We have been using this combination of reed switch and control relay for 25 years and it has proven to be extremely reliable (much better than moisture sensors and mercury float switches).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are looking at a pair of magnetic &#8220;reed&#8221; switches. The lower unit turns the bilge pump on\/off, while the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/bilge-pump-control-and-alarms\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}