Attwood Tsunami 800 GPH Ballast Pump

Customer Reviews

1. Great Product

   Review by Mike on 3/12/13

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   Bought 4 of these to add to my factory system. Use them without problems to fill and drain 2 x 400 bags. So far so good!

2. Attwood Tsunami Pumps

   Review by Lawerence Rusty Jacobson on 1/16/13

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   I ordered two of these ballast pumps from Wakemakers. The pumps arrived via priority mail and very quickly. Love the service. The pumps are exactly as advertised and replaced my 13 year old and outdated Attwood live well pumps. Wakemakers markets these as ballast pumps, but note to bass fishermen everywhere, these pumps are awesome for use in your bass boat, too. They pump in water at an amazing rate and never get air-locked as some other pumps tend to do. No need to reverse your boat to have the pump primed for pumping - which is a real hassle. Wakemakers and Attwood, the right company, the right product, killer service and all for the right price. I give them both my highest recommendation.

3. Great value, but slow if you have lots of ballast

   Review by WakeJames on 11/7/12

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   I used this to build an inexpensive over-the-side pump for my fly high sacs. It was a great value, costing around $55-$60 to build a pump instead of the $100 from fly high. It works well, but a few things I would say: SLOW to fill up my 800lbs ballast (10-15 min). Does not pump uphill too well. My boat is a V-drive, and by the time it pumps all the way up over the side down into the engine compartment it struggle to get going. I sometimes have to unplug the hose from the pump, let it prime, then plug it on again. Not sure if this is just on the 800gph or all tsunami pumps
   
   Conclusion: if this is your only pump and you have more than 300-400 lbs ballast, go with the bigger pump. Plumbed in i'm sure it would work a bit better. I am plannign to buy a 1200 GPH pump so I can run 2 at a time, this is a necessity in my opinion for lots of ballast.

4. So far, so good.

   Review by Brian on 1/11/12

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   I purchased this pump for my automated system I am building. These pumps installed nicely and look great.
   
   As far as wakemakers.com, great customer service, great advice, fast turnaround. I had my order in 2 days and couldn't be happier.

5. great pump

   Review by Brady on 7/3/11

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   great pump but without the adapter, it is great for manually filling my ballast bags

6. Seems plenty fast enough for most applications and easy to plumb

   Review by Jeff on 5/11/11

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   I haven't mounted these in the boat yet but experimented with a 750 lb sac on my porch. To create the most realistic test with all of the restrictions you'd have in an installed system I used 5 ft of the 3/4" standard ballast hose, a 3/4" check valve, a Flow Rite 3/4" elbow and a W736 Flow Rite to Fly High adapter.
   
   With the bag's bottom 10" above the pump (Submerged in a 5 gallon bucket fed by garden hose) and the hose routed up to a height of 30" before going back down to the bag it filled the 750 drum tight in right at 11 minutes. If I get the same result when they're plumbed in the boat I will be happy with that and will have saved $150-200 over the faster options (More expensive pumps, hose, fittings, etc) that would really only be 2-3 minutes faster.

7. Great Little Pump

   Review by Todd on 4/27/11

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   Good all around pump for 3/4" filling.

8. Easy installation and good performance

   Review by Ed on 4/14/11

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   Super easy pumps to install with the 3/4" fittings. Also came with the added bonus of the elbow fittings to give extra installation options. Overall great value............

9. Excellent for small fitting space

   Review by Pascal on 9/21/10

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   I had to add 2 pumps close to the existing one near the engine. Thoses pumps were perfect for this application. They use 3/4" hose and fittings on both sides, so it was easy to fit them to the existing scupper with a 3/4'' manifold.

10. Great Value and Performance

    Review by James on 9/20/10

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    I originally bought the two 500GPH pumps from Walmart since they were $10 cheaper each, however they took awhile to fill my Fly High Tube Sac. So I decided to buy the 800GPH pumps since they are faster, I should have just spent the extra $20 in the first place.. These pumps definitely made a difference and the filling and emptying was a lot better. Another advantage to these 800GPH pumps is that they use 3/4" hose and fittings were as the 1200GPH pumps use 1 1/8" hose and fitting. The 3/4" hose and fitting are fine for any ballast bag and they are cheaper then the 1 1/8' hose and fittings. Using 3/4" will save you money over all when installing a ballast system into your boat.