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o fully appreciate the seven high-end

electric-ush toilets that Practical

Sailor recently tested and featured in this

article, it helps to understand how they

are designed to combat the loathsome

clog.

With manual-pump heads, clog resis-

tance usually depends on the discharge

pump’s ability to pass bulky material—

baby wipes, feminine hygiene products,

paper towels, and other fibrous paper

products—the sort of stu that shouldn’t

be in a marine toilet in the rst place. Typi-

cally, water and material is moved toward

the holding tank with a piston pump or

diaphragm pump, both of which can push

fairly bulky items into the discharge hose.

Backow from the tank is prevented by

check valves, typically a apper valve, and/

or a exible tricuspid or duck-billed valve

that allows water flow in one direction.

ese, too, can allow some surprisingly

large objects to pass into the plumbing sys-

tem. (See Practical Sailor, September 2000.)

In fact, in the days of raw-water intakes

and direct overboard discharge, the abil-

ity to ush such things as a glove or sock

were badges of honor among toilet makers.

e old bronze Wilcox-Crittenden Skipper

and the Lavac are examples of heads that

don’t inch when you ush a baby-

wipe. An ability to ush big stu is

ne, provided you have an endless

supply of seawater for ushing and

direct overboard discharge.

However, with holding tanks

now the norm, anything that

makes it past the check valve winds

up in a holding tank. In a perfect

world, what goes into the tank is

easily pumped out, but as anyone

who has spent some time at a ma-

rine pumpout station can attest —

we do not live in a perfect world.

To complicate matters, the trend

toward freshwater ushing, which

reduces odor problems, leaves less

water available for ushing. Enter

the macerator pump. Like your

sink’s garbage disposal, macerator

pumps chop up material into ner

parts, creating an emulsied mix-

ture that can ow freely through

the system without building up.

For many years, head macera-

tors had a serious image problem.

They were loud and they didn’t

work. A common design incorporated an

impeller to move water and some rotating

blades to chop the solids. Typically, both

components shared the same motor

sha. Neither was very good at its re-

spective job, especially once a wad of

paper wrapped around its blades. Clogs

were frequent. Today’s macerators are

signicantly dierent.

In the mid-1990s, the Italian com-

pany Tecma (purchased by Thetford

in 2003) changed the perception of

macerators with the introduction of a

high-speed centrifugal “Vortex” pump,

which had a unique convex rotor and a

funnel-shaped casing or “volute” that con-

verts kinetic energy into pressure. Other

makers soon followed suit with similar de-

signs. Akin to a common bilge pump, the

centrifugal pump has a set of curved blades

on a rotor. e fast-spinning rotor creates a

change in pressure that can quickly push a

“slug” of liquid through the system, using

very little water and making far less noise

than the earlier renditions.

When combined with cutting blades

located on the rotor itself or the pump

housing, the pump is also very eective at

chopping down some surprisingly tough

material. Apart from the more obvious dif-

ferences in sizes, shapes, and buttons for

ushing, the subtle distinctions in pump

design are what set apart the toilets in this

test.

Toilets in this round of testing (foreground) were

very close in size to a common household toilet.

The Raritan Atlantes Freedom has a

clear access panel to check for clogs in

the macerator pump.

A quiet revolution in macerator design has

re-shaped the way we think about heads.

Electric-flush Toilet

Face-off, Part Two

Reprinted from March 2011 …

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Seite 1 - Face-off, Part Two

To fully appreciate the seven high-end electric-ush toilets that Practical Sailor recently tested and featured in this article, it helps to understan

Seite 2 - Controlling The Flow of Water

WHAT WE TESTEDOver the course of two weeks, Practical Sailor testers evaluated 14 toilets from seven manufacturers. e eld was divided into two group

Seite 3 - JAbSCo DEluxE FluSH

value guidedeluxe electric-Flush toiletsManuFacturer raritan doMetic Jabsco Planus thetFord (tecMa)Model #231HS012 A8R12 (Sealand) 8152 58040-1012 90

Seite 4 - Feature Tank-full Indicator

e Deluxe Flush (58040-1012) we tested was designed for pres-surized water, and adding an intake pump is an easy option. e 10-page instruction book w

Seite 5 - Modern Macerator

one for each function: “wa-ter only” to manually add water; “empty only” to evacuate bowl as long as button is pushed; “water saver,” which automati-c

Seite 6 - ConCluSionS

ConTACTSDOMETIC, 800/321-9886 www.dometic.comGROCO, 410/712-4242 www.groco.netJABSCO ITT, 714/557-4700 www.jabsco.comJOHNSON PUMPS, 847/671-7867 w