Adjusting rear sensors for larger bags.

[Hayden]

Matt Brown posted some good info on the FB group and he plans to discuss more on the forum. I always appreciate his insight and learned more about the ballast system.

Here is his post:

Sounds like we need to do another "tips of the day" series. There are 2 different ballast sensors. Both are looking for actual water. The front uses a "flow" sensor that is toward the end of the vent line. By the time water reaches that sensor, the water in the bag is full and that is why you see water flowing out. The rear sensor is on a tube. Because the tube is closer to bag, the system shuts off when the bag is full and you don't see water come out. But on the screen you will see a red dot indicating the sensor is actually full. If you are overfilling then you are really only putting more pressure on the bags and especially the bag fittings. If you keep doing that you will likely have problems with your bag fittings as they will become the weak link if you over pressurize the bags. The system actually measures the time and will learn and increase or decrease your timers automatically after 5 fill cycles. You can go to vessel settings and you can see the change in timers. As to venting, there are vent fittings built in that will slowly vent air. There is also an auto fill in smart tech that will go back and fill as air vents out.

Bottom line is there is a lot going on in the system. Use it however you like but just be warned that if you are always overfilling your rear bags you might eventually pop a fitting.

I will try to explain more later on the Moomba forum.

Thank you for posting this Hak but I gotta say, I'm really disappointed that SC didn't reply here...to this thread, first.

The Moomba FB group is great resource for people that opt-in to FB, but forum.moomba.com should be the first place all of the public, technical, bulletins/advice/etc from official SC sources lands.

What got me to buy my latest boat and the reason I show any degree of brand loyalty to SC, was all the support I got on here (from all of you) for my previous LSV and the advice I continue to get with my Mojo.

I know I'm just one guy but if they choose to shift their online community management to focus more on FB then I'm out.

[haknslash]

He used to be active on here and would provide great details and insight. I too wished they would post this stuff here as well be FB.

[MJHSupra]

Thank you for posting this Hak but I gotta say, I'm really disappointed that SC didn't reply here...to this thread, first.

The social media Fbook side has over 20k members now. A lot more "eyes" than here.

But I agree, this forum-type of media is better for searching and thread discussions. Thus why Matt will eventually post something here.

A YouTube video would be cool to explain while in the boat showing the screen and/or sensors.