(The top four photographs show Roscoe installing the holding tank on the Starboard side.  The remaining pictures show the Electro-San installation.)

     It appears my Electra-San might be a few inches higher than the head.  I am planning on using an existing shelf that I have no idea why Pearson installed in the first place. It does have a #4 red wire run to it and a group of #10&12 wires [4] that terminates in the head.  The red #4 runs from the port cockpit locker.

     My unit is just below the Port V berth opening. 
 

PLAN B

(Referencing the Electro-San pictures)

     I decided to remove the existing shelf on the Port side and build a smaller lower one from fiberglass.  Pictures showing old shelf on the way out, the Electro-San unit setting as low as possible to get measurements.  The next picture shows the new Fiberglass mount curing.

     Isn't it amazing how running two wires will get you on a completely different job.  I thought I would run the 12 volt pair to the Electra-San which I did then I had to mount the unit.  It was then I found out I had to move the holding tank to the starboard side of the V berth and glass in the mounts for the tank.  Next was the ordering of the relocation kit for the outlets.   I ordered three Y valves and mounted the waste pump. 

     Tomorrow I will build and glass in the mounts for the Y valves one will dump straight to the seacock the other will go from the Electro-San to the seacock and the last will go between the pump out and waste pump to the seacock.  So after making the mounts for the Y valves it will be back to the wiring.

   The new mount for the Electra-san fiber glassed in place at the rear of the port side V berth.  Notice the Electra-san mounted with the 90 degree elbow that allows access to the intake port.  The next picture shows the head without a head.

So how did it go?

     Connecting up one red wire and one black wire, was the original project.  Each 12 gauge and to be run as a pair for about 25 feet. One end connects to the switch panel the other to the Lectra-San.  An initial 10 minute job, well maybe 20 all right 30 minutes max. WRONG !!!

     In able to do this 30 min task, first I had to move the holding tank to the Starboard side.  After that I noticed the inlet and outlet on the tank were in the wrong location.  No problem a kit is available to re locate them only $20.   I ordered it and while at the desk I read the installation manual for the LECTRA-SAN.  It stated that the unit SHOULD BE PARALLEL TO OR BELOW THE TOILET.  After taking a few measurements I found that the unit was setting about 1' to high.   So out comes the old mounting and a new fiberglass one is constructed and installed.

     So how will I run the intake hose now?  it is too near the bottom of the boat.  A quick trip to Home Depot and I have a 90 degree elbow.  Now I have plenty of room.  I only have to drill a new hole and reroute the intake hose. 

     Boy will this be easy.  So into the head I go.  Out comes the hose.   While in the process I discover a patch on the toilet pump......On the phone to Raritan.  After much consideration I decide to replace it with a Sea Era macerating toilet. 

     After ordering 50 feet of 1-1/2" Uniflex sanitation hose, 2 boxes of clamps, 3Y valves and 2ea 1-1/2" vent loops, I think I have it all. 

     So the original task of connecting two little wires blossomed to a major time consuming not to mention boat-bucks, project. 

Roscoe

     The repairs on my boat has become much like writing a book, with chapters on Mechanics, Wiring, Freshwater, Toilet, Lectro-San, Holding Tank, Water maker, etc.

  The Sea Era toilet and water maker will use the same thru hull [sea cock] to receive raw water.  In order to plumb it I had to Remove the thru hull, soak it in carburetor cleaner, remove the 90 degree tail piece and re-plumb it with a "T" fitting.  One end of the "T" feeds the Raritan Sea Era toilet the other feeds the water maker. Each has it's own raw water strainer.

The other side of the "T" feeds the Sea Era through it's own strainer, to the pump,  through a vented loop to the rear of the toilet bowl.  When flushed raw water cleans the bowl with waste being pumped foreword to a "Y" valve that diverts the waste to the Lectra-San or holding tank.  From the Lectra-San the treated waste goes through a vented loop to the waste manifold and out through the waste seacock.

     If sent to the holding tank it can be pumped out by a marina or through the waste manifold by a hand pump and "Y" valve

     Finley the head and water maker is plumbed. now back to the wiring.

     Waste plumbing;1; head, 2;thru hull, 3;manifold, 4 vent loop, 5;Y valve, 6;Y valve, 7holding tank, 8;Electrosan, 9 hand pump.

     Waste leaves the toilet and goes to Y valve where it is either diverted to the L-S or holding tank.  If in to the L-S it then goes to the vent loop to manifold and out the thru hull.  If to the holding tank it can leave thru the manual pump to a Y valve that takes it to the manifold and out or to the on deck pump out Hopefully I'll finish the hoses today and get back to the wiring. I am still watering on the parts to finish installing the water maker.