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Originally Posted by Razor
AM,
Do you have a reverse osmosis pump or desalinator to augment your rain catchment?
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Do you mean boat or house? No,to both, for any number of reasons.
I am by no means a luddite. However, a decent watermaker would cost in the $4,300 range plus installation. A single replacement membrane is $338. Those prices are from
www.defender.com do a search for 'watermaker'. The power 80e
The manual model takes 13 minutes of pumping to get a single cup of water.
For the cost of one watermaker I can have one of these puppies, tuned to (illegally) add the SSB bands.
http://yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cmd=Dis...5&isArchived=0
I can even have some nice bells and whistles. Antennas and all that good stuff.
Considering that someone has proposed a bill to ban the internet (cross thread points please) in times of 'national crisis".. It seems wiser to use my meager funds on something far more useful.
with a pactor modem I can even get weather gribs and email.
I am a firm believer in KISS. The simpler it is, the less I have to work at maintaining it. The less there is to go wrong. Gutters and pipes to a cistern need virtually no maintenence. A mainsail with a catch funnel with hose to the watertank again simple and easy to maintain. I am rather lazy, I would much rather lay under the bimini and read, than work at some techno whiz bang toy.