Tim Powell
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- Joined
- Mar 30, 2008
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- OWNER - I own a Hatteras Yacht
- Hatteras Model
- 52' CONVERTIBLE (1983 - 1990)
This morning i got a call from the marina where i keep my boat. It is a 52c it has a strange toilet system. There are two out bound pumps lockated to the outside of each main engine. They pump the holding tank out. I seem to have two holding tanks one for the port and one for the starbard head. There are two seporate hoses going into the tank one in front and one in the back. But there is one main pump out hose going to the gunnel for shore pump out. Any way the port pump would not pump it would run for about 20 seconds and trip the braker. The repair man was going to repair the pump this morning. He opened the engine room hatch which is in the cockpit and was hit with a very foul oder .Thinking it had to do with the toilet problem thought nothing about the smell. He left the hatch open to air out a little came back in about 2 hours smell about the same so decided to bair the smell and try to fix the pump. He crawled across the batteries to find a worse smell. Took the cover off the battery and the battery was smoking and very hot. The smell was not from the toilet but from the battery cooking. The engine room was full of acid cooking not toilet stuff. If there had been a spark in the engine room the boat would have exploded inside out. I was called we replaced both starbord batteries what a closs call. One of the battries had shorted out inside the battery one checked .09 volts the other checked 12 volts.
The end resust with the pump the line was stoped up the pump was working hard and creating pressure allowing the pump to work hard and trip the braker......
Toilet saved the boat...
Tim
The end resust with the pump the line was stoped up the pump was working hard and creating pressure allowing the pump to work hard and trip the braker......
Toilet saved the boat...
Tim
