SEAFLODry Bilge System 12V

Works great. I am impressed with the quality and how well it works. If you read the instructions it is easy to program. Game changer for my bilge which always ad an inch water causing condensation.

The pump worked great for 2 months then it died. I opened it and found that water has leaked from one of the connections at the pump and flooded the case. I filled out a warranty claim on the Seaflo website and I received no communication from the company. Numerous attempts to reach someone by phone, leaving voicemails, were never answered. In my opinion, the warranty is useless and the Seaflo company does not stand behind their products.Do not buy!

Update: 4 months later:The pump died. After four months of turning on twice a day to pump down a small bilge pocket that always got wet, the pump died. Hard. I couldn't fix it. Overall, the bad manual, the mislabeled wires, and the bad hose connection took this three star rated junk to a one star. I don't recommend using this. I bought the parts separately and made a new one for under $60 with a cheap pump, cheap programmable switch, and some home depot tubing. Overall, this is one of the worst things I have bought for my boat from a company that I have, in the past, respected and trusted. I hope I don't run in to other issues with their other products because I have a lot of them on my boat. :/So this thing does a good job at what it designed to do - pump small amounts of water out of the bilge. Once installed, it worked well.First, there are three wires: a black wire (ground/negative), a brown wire and a brown wire with a stripe. The manual says, "Brown wire - manual function. Brown wire with stripe - automatic functions." It then includes a diagram that shows the brown wire going to the "manual" blade on the back of the switch and the brown with stripe going to the "automatic" blade on the switch. THIS IS BACKWARDS! I troubleshot for about 20 minutes because every time I flipped the switch the unit would turn on regardless of time or programming. I reversed those two wires and viola! It worked. C'mon Seaflo, I expect your instructions to AT LEAST be right on ALL products regardless if they are new or not.Next, The 1/2" hose connector is threaded on to a connector. The barbed connector didn't have a rubber seal and there was no thread tape on the female side. That meant it couldn't mate and make a water tight seal. So when I turned it on and it started pumping water leaked all over the place.However, a simple solution: a rubber O-ring and some thread tape.The last major issue: The programming instructions are wrong! After you go through the steps to program times it says, "Press the P button until the current time is displayed." You can't. If you keep pressing the P button it just keeps cycling through the 16 programmable memory slots. Instead, when you're done programming, just stop pressing buttons. It'll go back to displaying the current time in about 10 to 20 seconds.So to the engineers: Freaking correct your manual for the wiring, that's an unforgivable mistake and, if you'd made that mistake on a different wire or on a different piece of equipment, could have ended up with my getting seriously hurt! Also, it almost made me rip the whole thing out and send it back to you. Make the female threads from the pump box to the 1/2" barbed connector longer so they will seal tight. Or add a small O-ring and some thread tape when you're putting the thing together. And correct your instructions on programming. This is just a stupid mistake.I've got a lot less faith in this thing now that I know the manual should have failed QC, but didn't. I wonder what else QC failed to check... We'll see how she does over the next couple of years.

Have had two of these in my catamaran for about a year. I love the ability of these units to suck up all the water in my bilge, keeping my boat smelling better and less moldy. With the auto feature, I have them set to run for one minute every couple days at a rate that keeps up with my various rainwater leaks and condensation drips that make their way to the bilge. There's no harm in it running dry so if there's nothing to suck up it's no bother other than one minute of the sound of the pump running. Compared to other dry bilge units on the market this one is far more affordable.There is one parts issue with the item, which is that the 3/4" FNPT to 1/2" barb connector that is on the discharge end of the pump is very weak and prone to breaking. I solved this by replacing with a sturdier one and suggest you do the same, maybe needing some thread sealant and a 3/4" rubber gasket (like for a garden hose) as well - so while this was a cheap fix, they should've used a stronger one to begin with so I knocked off a star for this.The instructions for setting the automatic feature are okay but not great in that they leave out a step at the end that you MAY need and I couldn't figure it out for a while but finally did. It is a CN101A digital timer so you can look up better instructions for that on the internet. The gist of it is to look on the screen and be sure it says "AUTO" not "OFF." Press the "Manual" button to cycle between "AUTO" "OFF" and "MANUAL." Following the included instructions for me led to it being in the "OFF" mode and I could not figure it out for quite a while. It will only run the programmed schedule if it says "AUTO."Good unit, and even if one dies on me "too soon" I would replace with another because the benefits of a dry bilge are worth the reasonable price on this item.

Had to return mine because i found another product that supported up 2 four water pickups, so it was more economical that buying 4 of these.. with that said i did manage to test it out and filled up a soup bowl with water, it managed to get every last drop out of the bowl, very impressive. If you only need 1 water pickup this is your best bet.

Product was not as stated. Items were missing and seller never responded to my requests. Poor quality parts, at least those that were not missing from the box!

If you are using this with a 4-port, the listing is wrong. It says it comes with 5/16" hose. It does not. It comes with 1/4" hose and the fittings are 1/4" on the pump (this unit), which the fitting on the 4-port is 5/16"I question how well thought-out this device is based on the poor attention to detail. Hopefully, it doesn't turn out to be a piece of junk.

Most boats get some water in the bilge, even if just from condensation of the air against the fiberglass (or aluminum) that is in contact with colder water. This system from Seaflo is super easy to install, and there is plenty of hose, so you can move around the suction sponge to other areas as needed. I have one sucking water from the front bilge compartment where i get most of the condensation, and it keeps it nearly dry. Adding a second one by the rear bilge pump.