{"id":16932,"date":"2011-08-16T03:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T08:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=16932"},"modified":"2011-08-16T04:41:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:41:53","slug":"testing-damge-control-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/testing-damge-control-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Damge Control Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Round-Pond-Maine-1907.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Round-Pond-Maine-1907.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Round Pond Maine 1907\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We fit damage control (crash ) pumps to all our yachts. These are plumbed with a single line throughout, and Ts with valves \u00a0in each watertight section. Although the pumps are self \u00a0priming, the slightest leak, especially to the forepeak, and\u00a0 they won&#8217;t draw. So a periodic test is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What you see here is the output on a test with the engine turning 1200 RPM, and the 2&#8243;\/50mm speedometer transducer pulled from the forepeak bottom. The Pacer hydraulically driven pump could just keep up with the flow. When the forepeak was dried out, and flow sputtering, the dry pump alarm sounded (running the pump dry is hard on the shaft seals).<\/p>\n<p>Good test results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We fit damage control (crash ) pumps to all our yachts. These are plumbed with a single line throughout, and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/testing-damge-control-pumps\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932"}],"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=16932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}