Reversing current to a ballast pump motor

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  • H2Ohaze
    Lieutenant Commander
    • Jul 2011
    • 117

    Reversing current to a ballast pump motor

    I'd like opinions on what I should get. Other ideas than those here entertained:

    I just got shipped the first Holland MK ii from Rick Palumbo.

    It doesn't use a Snort. It has a piston tank chamber operated by a pump DC motor. By reversing the current it either fills or empties, and it doesn't have to be proportional. I'm trying to find a good reversing switch.

    It's been suggested to me to try a sub ES2:


    I already own this:


    But I know that the EMS just above has a common, and just switches one lead to control a "second" device. It seems to me to reverse current on one device you need a double pole switch...break both + and - terminals, then switch polarity. Else you'll have a short? Is the ES2 suitable?

    There is this possibility which is cheaper but may be bulkier. I can't figure out if it's an RS-5 or RS-1, the text is messed up on the description:

    third item from top

    I have a separate failsafe I can put in upstream of the device. Thank you.
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