About Steve Pooler

Steve Pooler is a marine air conditioning specialist based on the West Coast of Florida. His marine repair background started in the 1970's at a family owned and operated boat yard in St Petersburg, Florida. Steve has a knowledge of most all specialties involved with marine and yacht repair. For the last 20 years (11 of which were for a Cruisair distributor) Steve's specialty has been yacht & boat air conditioning and refrigeration service.

DIY Question about Marine A/C Wattage Draw & Operating on DC Inverter Power

December 9, 2011 By Steve Pooler

I Recently received an email from a gentleman named Tyler... Tyler was inquiring about a DIY job installing Marine A/C on a 30 foot sailboat, and then running the Marine Air Conditioner on an inverter when he was away from shore power. His question asked about wattage draw of a 8,000 BTU Cruisair self contained Turbo AC unit & if I thought the 8,000 BTU marine ac unit would be large enough for his 30' Irwin. Since this "Air Conditioning on Inverter" question is being asked more & more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DIY Questions, Inverters, Marine Air Conditioning Tagged With: Amperage, Boat A/C, Cruisair, DIY, Do It Yourself, Dometic, Inverter, Smart Start, Soft Start, Wattage

Marine A/C before Cruisair or Marine Air

July 15, 2011 By Steve Pooler

50 Year Old Custom Marine Air Conditioning

50 or so years ago...Marine A/C was custom installed only (no production units)...This was what was installed in yachts for A/C...The system is what we call "Modulating" with a Semi Hermetic compressor, and each cabin had it's own thermostat that shut the flow of refrigerant off to that cabin when it reached the selected temp. One compressor & 5 air handlers in this case...This system is in a Berger Yacht & cools the lower deck cabins... The Cruisair units in the second picture were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marine AC Tagged With: Boat A/C, Boat A/C forum, boat ac troubleshooting, Marine A/C forum

MARINE AIR 224110091 (6PRP) REPLACEMENT PUMP RELAY BOARD

November 12, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Replacement board for 2PRP pump relay-Marine Air Part # 224110091 6 PRP circuit board Includes thermal compound packet for retrofit Call for details and shipping options 727-365-6123 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Pump Relays & Parts, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: 6PRP, Boat Air Conditioning, Dometic, Fault Code, HHH, HI P5, HI PS, LO PS, LPF, Marine AC, Marine Air, Pump Relays

Marine Air 224110090 (2PRP) Replacement Pump Relay Board

November 12, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Replacement board for 2PRP pump relay-Marine Air Part # 224110090 2 PRP circuit board Includes thermal compound packet for retrofit Call for details and shipping options 727-365-6123 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Pump Relays & Parts, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: 2PRP, Boat A/C, Dometic, Fault Code, HHH, HI P5, HI PS, LO P5, LO PS, LPF, marine ac pumps, Marine Air, Pump Relays

Marine Air 224110040 (2PRP) Two Unit Pump Relay 115/230 volt

November 12, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Two Unit Solid State Relay,224110040 (2PRP) Two Unit Pump Relay Two Unit Solid State Relay 115V/230V 1phase Pump activation for two units supplied by one seawater pump Call for details and shipping options 727-365-6123 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Pump Relays & Parts, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: 2PRP, Boat A/C, Fault Code, HHH, HI P5, HI PS, LO P5, LO PS, LPF, marine ac pumps, Marine Air, Pump Relays

Marine Air 224110050 (6PRP) TWO TO SIX UNIT SOLID STATE RELAY, 115V/230V 1PHASE

November 12, 2010 By Steve Pooler

224110050 (6PRP) 6 Unit Solid State Pump Relay, 115V/230V 1phase Marine Air Pump Relay 2 Units off One Pump 115V or 230V AC Call for details and shipping options 727-365-6123 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Pump Relays & Parts, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: 6PRP, Fault Code, HHH, HI P5, HI PS, LO P5, LO PS, LPF, marine ac pumps, Marine Air, Pump Relays, West Coast of Florida

5 Critical Things You Need to Know BEFORE Buying a Marine Air Conditioning System:

November 8, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Some Good Info Here Folks in this 16 page PDF...What to Look For and What to Avoid, plus additional products to improve an existing system. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, AC/Systems, Featured-Home, Maintence Tips, Marine AC Tagged With: Boat A/C, Boat Air Conditioning, Cruisair, Dometic, Marine AC, Marine Air, West Coast of Florida, Yacht Air Conditioning

Marine AC Compressor SmartStart, Soft Start, Hard Start Assist

November 8, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Got a Compressor that is a bit hard starting...Maybe marginal Shore Power or Generator causing Tripped Breakers, Lights Dimming, or Battery Backups beeping every time the A/C starts...This could be your answer... I have installed several and found the claims to be true... The instructions are pretty straight forward, but I can also provide an installation video... Steve~ … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cruisair Store, Marine A/C Store, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: boat ac troubleshooting, Chilled Water, Compressor Starting, Cruisair, Dometic, Hard Start Compressor, marine ac troubleshooting, Marine Air

Marine Air Vector Turbo Self Contained A/C 6,000 Btu 115 volt

November 8, 2010 By Steve Pooler

FEATURES BENEFITS Elite or Passport I/O Display Versatility in choice of displays w/Passport I/O technology High Velocity Blower Increased air flow with no motor overhang Rust-free Molded Composite Drain Pan Never rusts and minimal standing condensate water Blower Rotatable to Left or Right Hand Reduced installation time and SKU #'s Built-in Isolation Mounting System Minimizes vibration to the mounting deck State-of-the-Art Patented Technology Increased capacity & reduced … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Self Contained "Turbo" A/C Units, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: Boat A/C, Marine AC, Marine Air

Marine Air Vector Turbo Self Contained A/C 8,000 Btu 115 volt

November 8, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Self Contained "Turbo" A/C Units, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: Boat A/C, Dometic, Marine AC, Marine Air

Marine Air Vector Turbo Self Contained A/C 10,000 Btu 115 volt

November 8, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Self Contained "Turbo" A/C Units, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: Boat Air Conditioning, Marine AC, Marine Air

Marine Air Vector Turbo Self Contained A/C 12,000 Btu 115 volt

November 8, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Self Contained "Turbo" A/C Units, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: Boat A/C, Boat Air Conditioning, Dometic, Marine AC

Marine Air Vector Turbo Self Contained A/C 16,000 Btu 115 volt

November 8, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Filed Under: Marine A/C Store, Marine Air Self Contained "Turbo" A/C Units, Marine Airrrr Store Tagged With: Boat A/C, Boat Air Conditioning, Dometic, Marine AC, Marine Air

Cruisair STX6 Stowaway Turbo Unit (SMXII) w/410A

November 6, 2010 By Steve Pooler

205561255 STX6 -410A 115V 6000 Btu NEW FOR 2010, Includes SMXII power/logic box and a TSEP5... SMXir & SMXht keypads, and CXP cable are sold separately. Call or E-Mail for discounted pricing. Note: Picture may show "Optional" compressor sound shield which is sold separately. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cruisair Self Contained "Turbo" Units, Cruisair Store, Marine A/C Store Tagged With: Boat Air Conditioning, Cruisair, Marine AC, turbo unit

Marine Air Conditioning System Maintenance

November 5, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Greetings All, Let's start with the basics... Seawater flow thru your A/C system is primary... Without water flow....You have NO cooling ! Service people on the docks (at least the better ones) can walk down the dock during the summer and tell which boats they are likely to be getting a call from next just by the flow of water (or lack of) going overboard on each boat....Lack of seawater flow can cause other problems besides loss of cooling... Lack of seawater flow causes high system … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, AC/Systems, Cruisair, Maintence Tips, Marine AC, Marine Air Tagged With: boat ac troubleshooting, Fault Code, HHH, HI P5, HI PS, High Head Pressure, LO P5, Marine A/C maintenance, marine ac troubleshooting, Strainer, Yacht A/C

Sentry Battery Chargers

October 30, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Greetings All, It seems that there is some confusion/misconceptions about Sentry battery chargers...Actually all chargers, but with the recent years of newer technology in battery charging (switch mode or multi stage) when compared to the older (time proven) technology of Sentry & others being Ferro Resonant transformer type...below is a bunch of excerpts from a forum I visit... All of this below is repeated info folks...Just wanted to try to centralize it...It's copies of posts & … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured-Home, Sentry Battery Charger Tagged With: Cruisair Battery Chargers, Dometic, Dometic Battery Charger, Dometic Charger, Marine Battery Chargers, Marine Development Corp, Sentry Battery Charger, Sentry Charger, Sentry Charger SM model

A/C System Ices Up

July 16, 2010 By Steve Pooler

I notice from the Google searches...That A/C System Icing is a search done often.. Though there can be many reasons for system icing...There are a few that the DIY boater can rule out before calling the service guy ( I can discuss other reasons in the forum but here are a few of the basic answers) Direct Expansion A/C (as opposed to Chilled Water) systems rely heavily on Air Flow across the evaporator coil in order to pick up the designed amount of heat the system was engineered to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AC/Systems, Featured-Home, Maintence Tips Tagged With: ac iceing, Boat A/C, boat ac troubleshooting, Fault Code, Fix my A/C, HHH, HI P5, HI PS, High Head Pressure, LO P5, LO PS, LPF, Marine A/C maintenance, marine ac troubleshooting, Yacht A/C, yacht ac troubleshooting

Free Marine A/C & Refrigeration Troubleshooting

March 24, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Greetings All... This is just a note to confirm that I offer FREE Troubleshooting help for your Marine A/C & Refrigeration issues...But I ONLY do this in the FORUM section...If you can't take the time to register & ask in the FORUM...I usually won't respond...(this section is not setup for dialog/discussion...it's only setup for comments) My only request in return is that you Consider me when buying replacement parts, or units...And that if local, you also consider my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DIY Questions Tagged With: ac iceing, Boat A/C, Boat A/C forum, boat ac troubleshooting, Boat Air Conditioning, Chilled Water, Cold Plate/Holding Plate, Cruisair, Digital Marine A/C Controls, Dometic, Eutectic, Eutectic Refrigeration, Fix my A/C, Free Marine AC Troubleshooting Help, High Head Pressure, Marine A/C Controls, Marine A/C forum, Marine A/C maintenance, PR3X, PR8X, Pump Relays, Strainer, Yacht A/C, yacht ac troubleshooting, Yacht Air Conditioning

Dometic Marine Air/Cruisair Pump Relay’s

March 24, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Marine Air PUMP RELAY PANELS 224110040 $245.00 (2PRP) Two Unit Solid State Relay, 115V/230V 1phase 224110050 $275.00 (6PRP) Two To Six Unit Solid State Relay, 115V/230V 1phase Cruisair Pump Relays and Triggers PR3X $285.00 Pump Relay, 115/230V, Up to 3 Triggers (not included) PR3X-2 $285.00 Pump Relay, 115/230V, with two 115V Triggers PR3X-2C $285.00 Pump Relay, 115/230V, with two 230V Triggers PR3X-3 $310.00 Pump Relay, 115/230V, with three 115V … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marine Air Pump Relays & Parts Tagged With: 2PRP, 6PRP, Boat Air Conditioning, High Head Pressure, marine ac pumps, PR3X, PR8X, Pump Relays, Pumps, West Coast of Florida, Yacht Air Conditioning

Cold Plate/Hold Over Refrigeration

March 15, 2010 By Steve Pooler

For many years Hold Over/Cold plate refrigeration was the way to go for long distance cruising yachts, and over the road refrigerated trucks...The function is Just as the Phrase Implies...Hold Over...For extended periods with a minimum of refrigeration system run time. The Advantages, and Disadvantages of a Hold Over system are similar to a block of ice because that is essentially what is done... The hold over plate/s in the box is/are approx 3" thick, and have copper tubing run through them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Maintence Tips, Refrigeration Tagged With: Eutectic, Eutectic Refrigeration, Florida, Grurnert, Hold Over, Holding, Plates, refrigeration, West Coast of Florida

Marine A/C Cabin Controls

February 22, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Since they are not like home A/C controls...Sometimes marine A/C controls are misunderstood...Hope this can clear up some misconceptions... They do provide the same function as in home systems as they are designed to keep the temperature in the cabin/room at a selected temp within a few degrees... But different than Home...They can (and most do nowadays) offer more/different features than we use at home depending on the type of marine control that is installed...We can cover some of those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DIY Questions Tagged With: Marine A/C maintenance, Yacht A/C

Marine A/C & New Refrigerant Regulations

January 27, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Due to new 2010 EPA regulations regarding the phase out of our long used R-22 A/C refrigerant systems... Here's what I can share at this point from the Cruisair/Marine Air perspective & what I have been told. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, AC/Systems, Cruisair, Maintence Tips, Marine AC, Marine Air Tagged With: ac iceing, Boat A/C, Boat A/C forum, boat ac troubleshooting, Boat Air Conditioning, Cruisair, Dometic, Fix my A/C, High Head Pressure, Marine A/C maintenance, Marine AC, marine ac iceing, marine ac troubleshooting, Yacht A/C, yacht ac troubleshooting, Yacht Air Conditioning

Marine A/C Icing in Heat

January 23, 2010 By Steve Pooler

It's the time of year that we all need heat…Even here in Florida this year…Global Warming My…? Anyway… Below is a post I answered in the Hatteras Owners Forum, and it seems to be a subject that many of you all are searching for answers to this time of year…It also applies to cooling in the summer, but is mostly about system Icing & the causes…I'm also going to link this article to a Forum post here on this site so that anyone that may have questions or need further … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DIY Questions, Icing Up Tagged With: ac iceing, Boat A/C, boat ac troubleshooting, Boat Air Conditioning, Fix my A/C, Marine AC, marine ac iceing, marine ac pumps, marine ac troubleshooting, yacht ac troubleshooting, Yacht Air Conditioning

AC Filters, Coils & Pump Systems Maintenance & Checkup

January 6, 2010 By Steve Pooler

If it’s yourself doing the service…There are a few things you can do but since you are probably not equipped or trained as an A/C tech…There are of course some limitations…Hopefully I can point out and describe what you can do…And offer a few hints of signs of trouble without tools like gauges etc… … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Air Flow, Maintence Tips Tagged With: 2PRP, 6PRP, Boat A/C, boat ac troubleshooting, Cruisair, Dometic, Fault Code, Fix my A/C, HHH, HI P5, High Head Pressure, LO P5, LO PS, LPF, Marine A/C maintenance, marine ac iceing, Marine Air, PR3X, PR8X, Pump Relays, Pumps, Strainer, yacht ac troubleshooting

To 2010 Boat/Yacht A/C Owners

January 5, 2010 By Steve Pooler

Hello All...A New Year again...Hopefully yours was good.... I started this site last year to "put my feelers out" about what owners and captains may want to learn and share about marine a/c. The support has been more than I ever expected... So... My New Year resolution to you is expand the site we created...Because of your feedback I am going to begin adding to my store to allow you to order most of the common Marine A/C system items that I found you've needed, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, AC/Systems, Maintence Tips, Marine AC, Site Info Tagged With: Boat A/C, Boat A/C forum, boat ac troubleshooting, Boat Air Conditioning, Chilled Water, Dometic, Fix my A/C, Florida, High Head Pressure, Marine A/C forum, Marine A/C maintenance, Marine AC, marine ac iceing, marine ac pumps, marine ac troubleshooting, Marine Air, Pump Relays, Strainer, Yacht A/C, yacht ac troubleshooting, Yacht Air Conditioning

About Steve Pooler

DIY Question about Marine A/C Wattage Draw & Operating on DC Inverter Power

Marine A/C before Cruisair or Marine Air

MARINE AIR 224110091 (6PRP) REPLACEMENT PUMP RELAY BOARD

Marine Air 224110090 (2PRP) Replacement Pump Relay Board

Marine Air 224110040 (2PRP) Two Unit Pump Relay 115/230 volt

Marine Air 224110050 (6PRP) TWO TO SIX UNIT SOLID STATE RELAY, 115V/230V 1PHASE

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