Wakemaker bag upgrade sensor adjust

[Steelerdog]

I installed the 1345 bags in my makai. They show full on the screen once the bag fills to level of the old bag height wise. Is the full sensor on the tube adjustable or do I always need to force past 100% to get them full. It's not a timer issue.

[haknslash]

Slide them up on the tubing more towards the thru-hull fitting. They are too low IMO. I really don't care for the things tbh. Same thing would happen on my Max and I would get these "false full" readings where ballast levels would go from 45% straight to 100% about halfway in the fill process. Mine was made worse by the additional wakemakler midship bags not having a vent and this caused a lot of pressure on the system and IMO made water trickle up to the ballast sensor even though the bags were nowhere near full. Now that I just added midship venting and a check valve my false filling seems to have gone away. I'd rather just unplug and remove the sensors but I'm not sure if that would cause a fault code or not (my gut says yet it would since there is a code for a bad sensor).

I've heard rumors SC might be getting away from the sensors since but have no concrete evidence behind that statement. Personally I just don't like them but I understand why they're there to help prevent running the pumps dry or excessive impeller wear.

[Steelerdog]

Nice to hear it can be adjusted! Thanks for the input.

[haknslash]

After some digging on here i see that with the Makai they also have it attached/glued to some lower tubing. Mine is not like that on the Max as it just clips over the tube and can be easily repositioned. Here's some pics and info on the sensor for a Makai https://forum.moomba.com/showthread.php?34935-Ballast-sensor-2019. It definitely looks too low once you add a taller WM bag. This is why I don't like that overflow change they did beginning in 2019 when they moved it from the top of the bags to the bottom. I will be moving mine next time I work on the boat as I just did my midship bags to have vents but ran out of time to convert the rears from bottom to top venting like pre-2019 boats were..

[Steelerdog]

Thanks again, that gives me a direction to go.

[Steelerdog]

So tonight I dug into it. The 1345 bags measure 10 inches taller than the oem bags. To raise the sensor that far will require a lot of work.i can see why many don't bother to set it up and just turn autowake off. I plan on making all the adjustments, just not right now.