Well its been a busy week. You know, I am a Yacht Broker, captain, navigator, chef, painter, plumber, electrician, mechanic; yes to own a boat you have to be a jack of all trades.
Earlier in the week, our ElectroScan waste treatment system began to act up. The system would not pull the necessary amperage to complete its cycles necessary to treat the waste.
So after a call to Raritan in Ft. Lauderdale, and with the help of a very knowledgeable technician, I finally had the trouble identified. It seemed like the electrode pack had failed. A new pack was ordered and it arrived on Wednesday.
B
ut getting the new electrode into the unit would be a challenge.You can see what the electrode looks like in the photo to the left. It measures about 10 x 10. The threaded posts are where to electrical connections are made; the 3 red plates are the electrodes themselves.
Now where the unit is placed inside the Patricia Ann made it clear that I had to remove the entire unit from the trawler to make the repair. That meant disconnecting both plumbing connections along with the electrical hookups.
Without going into a description of how difficult it was to remove the existing sanitation hoses from the ElectroScan, I could not have done it with out a heat gun and about 2 dozen shop towels to mop up the spilled water.
To install the electrode simply required the removal of the blue top to the treatment tanks and sliding the new electrode inside. But I got it apart and installed the new electrode without any trouble.
I guess that qualifies me to be called a waste treatment plant operator now too huh?
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