egaito
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I'm trying to determine the draw for our Galley Maid head pumps.....here's why:
We ran across a deal on a couple of new Vacu-Flush units, 12v of course.
I talked to an electric motor guy about having the motors rebuilt for 32v, and he says no.
He contacted the manufacturer of the pump motors for me (Leeson, I think), and they could not find the model numbers in their catalog, to see if there's a replacement in 32v.
So, plan C is to convert the voltage through a Newmar of the appropriate size, or something less expensive if I can find it as we don't need regulated power for this application.
The VF motors are rated to draw 10 amps max, 6 amps nominal. There are two units, so assuming worst case, two simultaneous BIG flushes, requiring 20 amps, I'd like to put a converter sized for this in the ER, where one of current GM pumps lives and use the 32v line that runs to it for power.
From here, it will be a relatively short 12v run to both the master and guest heads. I may end up doing two 10 amp converters, one at each GM point, for a bit of redundancy...and due to the fact that two 10 amp converters are less expensive than one larger version....go figure.
Understanding the load put on the existing wiring by the GM's will give me an idea about whether or not the converter will be happy on the existing wiring runs.
Thanks,
We ran across a deal on a couple of new Vacu-Flush units, 12v of course.
I talked to an electric motor guy about having the motors rebuilt for 32v, and he says no.
He contacted the manufacturer of the pump motors for me (Leeson, I think), and they could not find the model numbers in their catalog, to see if there's a replacement in 32v.
So, plan C is to convert the voltage through a Newmar of the appropriate size, or something less expensive if I can find it as we don't need regulated power for this application.
The VF motors are rated to draw 10 amps max, 6 amps nominal. There are two units, so assuming worst case, two simultaneous BIG flushes, requiring 20 amps, I'd like to put a converter sized for this in the ER, where one of current GM pumps lives and use the 32v line that runs to it for power.
From here, it will be a relatively short 12v run to both the master and guest heads. I may end up doing two 10 amp converters, one at each GM point, for a bit of redundancy...and due to the fact that two 10 amp converters are less expensive than one larger version....go figure.
Understanding the load put on the existing wiring by the GM's will give me an idea about whether or not the converter will be happy on the existing wiring runs.
Thanks,
