Sea Recovery 900 gpd Watermaker

Normally you check it at the water maker at the test or bypass hose that you open and it usually has a 3' hose on it with no end routed into a bilge. Your watermaker should only have 1 membrane I believe at 900 GPD, so I'd just check it there if that is the case. You could boost it to a 1200 GPD just by adding a second membrane and the appropriate tubing.

I wouldn't use the acid wash given their age. Measure the output of each membrane after they've been running a while and see where you're at on each one (salinity). Or just buy new ones if it's such a big concern.

Your joshing us right? after all of my "hoopla" and bit#*ing about proprietary membranes, you've found replacements that fit your Sea Recovery pressure vessels or are you purchasing membranes that come in their own pressure vessels?

Well "dog my cats"! If this is a true replacement for the proprietary Filmtec's produced for Sea Recovery than I stand corrected and will never "whine" about that again plus, I'll shout your finding from the mountaintop that these now exist. Do expect a phone call from Beard Marine offering you hush money to never print or repeat your findings ever again...

Shoot, I went online a few minutes ago and can now find 3 inch x 21 inch from AMI and a few other membrane aftermarket retailers. This wasn't the case two years ago when I had a clients machine refurbished after it sat for two yrs while the vessel was listed. Searched high and low for membranes and different parts and filters and in the end was forced to deal with Beard Marine for supply. This is good news for the 1000's of units out there in service. I did see where Osmosis Technology has an asterisk next to their 21 inchers denoting a new product. So much for my proprietary ranting...

As much fun as this is, I wouldn't totally quit my ranting until someone actually uses one of the others and finds it works well. I've seen too many things that seemed like perfect replacements of OEM parts and then one very tiny difference made it not quite so.

CSkipR, did you talk to them enough to find out if they had many customers who had made the switch and were happy, although their answer might be biased? Just curious since this is obviously not common knowledge.

QUOTE="olderboater, post: 253971, member: 40728"]As much fun as this is, I wouldn't totally quit my ranting until someone actually uses one of the others and finds it works well. I've seen too many things that seemed like perfect replacements of OEM parts and then one very tiny difference made it not quite so.

CSkipR, did you talk to them enough to find out if they had many customers who had made the switch and were happy, although their answer might be biased? Just curious since this is obviously not common knowledge.[/QUOTE]


I agree but after checking and double checking all measurements on the SR membranes they're the real deal as inlets and outlets match the Filmtec's & are generic on most membranes so @ 3" diam. x 21 " long they'll fit the pressure vessels. Going to put the dust cover on my Sea Recovery soap box...

Sounds good. I like that you heard it straight from Osmosis Tech.