Bilge Pump wiring

You always leave the bilge pump off for a day, a day when you'll be very close by, and get a sense of how much water it takes on when it's just sitting for a day. It shouldn't be too much, and if so, you'll be fine as long as you have a strong battery. A week really isn't that much time.

Pay close attention to how your cover "tents" water. Make sure you have the poles setup high enough, and that the cover is taut. I use some old windshield washer fluid bottles filled with stones/sand and water, and use bungie them to my cover straps along the sides, to keep constant tension on the cover. The less water that gets in, the less your bilge pump will have to pump out.

Blamey wrote: 74Wind wrote: LPSL effect... ????

Loud pipes save lives......

Thinking further, mine has a detachable face, I assume it does not draw any power with face off, but can't say for sure.

Different scenario, I rarely if ever put the face on....not to save power, but mostly just prefer the LPSL effect...

I wired my stereo to one acc breaker and all my USB power outlets to the other acc breaker. If you don't have anything tied to those, that could be an option if you didn't want to detach the face.

Another option would be to jump from the hot side the ignition breaker to the auto pump breaker to give it constant 12v regardless of the ig breaker.

Not sure what the battery drain would be for a week with the auto pump indicator always being on. I'm guessing small, but i could be wrong.

Spiral

So I am planning on leaving my boat (1995 Sport Nautique) in a slip over the summer. Plan is mostly just for overnights on the weekend but I'd like to be able to leave the boat for up to a week if needed.

I currently have a Rule pump and a Water Witch switch. I have tested both and they work but I want to make sure this is going to be an adequate setup for leaving the boat for that long. is this a safe setup for keeping the boat on a slip?

The pump is setup with what I believe to be factory config, which is basically that the ignition breaker needs to be on for the pump, or anything else electrical, to work at all, Then there is a Manual Pump breaker to turn the pump on and an Automatic Pump breaker to turn the switch on. My issue with this is that turning the ignition on also turns the head unit on and I am worried that the stereo (even if it's in standby and not actually playing anything) will draw too much power if left on for the week. Should the head unit be rewired so it doesn't turn on with the ignition switch?

Thoughts?