I was looking to reduce my ballast fill time from 9min 15sec to under 5 min. My existing setup had 2 Kings filling port and starboard and a Puppy filling the bow bag. The Talulah High flow pump with it's 30GPH-250lbs/min rating seemed like it would be just the ticket. I was going to buy two of them but decided to buy one to run to the port bag and run both Kings to the starboard bag. The mfg recommends using 1-1/2" suction hose which is definitely harder to work with than the 1" hose I used on the Kings and Puppy. I had an extra 1" thru hull (rated at 2200GPH)and ball valve in the shop so I figured I would give that a go instead of buying a new 1-1/2" thru hull and could always upgrade if required. I have Enzo sacs in my boat and the ports aren't 1-1/2", I thought about using a "Y" fitting and stepping the 1-1/2" hose down to 2X 1" hoses then just figured I'd give it a go just stepping down to a single 1" hose before going into the bags.
The mfg recommends a 50amp fuse so I installed a resettable one I found on Amazon and decided to run a cheap winch solenoid relay (shown in the pics.) As soon as I pulled the relay out of the box I knew it would give me issues as the switching contacts were loose. The relay worked well to fill but required some jiggling to drain until I got the second solenoid relay, (link shown below.)
I got all my pipe and hose fittings from Mcmaster.com as I struggled to find a single other online suppliers with all the fittings in stock that I needed. I really liked the white Everbilt fitting a friend gave me from his pool fitting collection, unfortunately my local Home Depot was sold out of all pool fittings at the time of the build.
The pump is a beast and works awesome! My fill time is under 5 minutes and I'm not seeing any sizeable increase in fill time over expectations due the the inlet and outlet reduced diameters.
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High-Pressure Plastic Pipe Fitting for Water
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