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Overview<\/h2>\n

We have an Electromaxx Solar Maxx 10 watermaker.\u00a0 I spent a number of hours trying to figure out how best to place the parts of the watermaker.\u00a0 This is the best arrangement I could figure out.\u00a0 We “lost” some storage space around the place under the v-berth behind the water tank but have not noticed that much.\u00a0 We already seem to be “bow heavy” with anchor chain that we carry (200ft chain plus rope road).<\/p>\n

We have a manual process still for filling the tanks but that’s fine as I am typically filling the time doing other jobs on the boat while the watermaker is running and the bit of time for tank filling is minimal.<\/p>\n

Drawer unit under V-berth<\/h2>\n

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Clark pump fastened on the front of the drawer unit toward the water tank.\u00a0 The back of the drawer unit was re-enforced with additional marine plywood to provide strength and stiffness.\u00a0 I am pointing at the extra that I added behind the drawers.<\/p>\n

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The high pressure pump and filter was fastened to the port side of the drawer unit.\u00a0 Again some marine plywood added for strength and stiffness.<\/p>\n

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I did glass in some tubing to run the raw water supply line from the head.\u00a0 I added this on top of the existing tubing that was there for the water tank supply line from the forward tank.<\/p>\n

Bulkhead to the head<\/h2>\n

The carbon filter was placed on the bulkhead wall between v-berth and the head.\u00a0 There was clearance beside the fold out storage bin.\u00a0 A hold was cut in the bulkhead to allow salt water supply, fresh water (for flush) supply, product line and brine line.<\/p>\n

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Thru-hull access in the head<\/h2>\n

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The control was placed in the corner of the thru-hull access area. Some wood was added to allow the “angled” mounting in this location.\u00a0 The salt water supply was teed of the head supply after the filter using a Y-valve.\u00a0 \u00a0 The power control box was placed inside the area of the toilet paper holder area.<\/p>\n

Brine and product lines<\/h2>\n

Rather than try running product supply lines to each tank and having valves to control the flow we simply have the test flow out go into a jerry can.\u00a0 We used jerry cans the first year so already have two.\u00a0 So fill a jerry can then once full fill the second jerry can filling. We take the full JC on to the deck and fill which ever tank we need.<\/p>\n

The brine line I have not yet put a thru-hull out.\u00a0 We simply open the head window and run the brine line out it to dump water over board.<\/p>\n

Only “trouble” with the arrangement as the head water thru-hull is being used for the watermaker we can’t flush the head. But that is just a matter of timing and control \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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