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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...]

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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...]

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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

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...]

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More on Pumps, Flow & Maintence…Larger Pump ?

September 2, 2009 By Steve Pooler

Below is another copy of a post I made in the Meridian Owners Forum...If you want the full jest...http://www.meridianyachtowners.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1957&posts=15#M18424 Hi Mark...Don't know if you are still watching this thread, or if you have seen my thread over in the "Introduce Yourself" forum but here's my take... It seems that when the system was flushed, that it was flushed just well enough to break loose some stuff...Now it is floating around in the hoses and … [Read more...]

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Backflush A/C ? & Marine Growth

August 24, 2009 By Steve Pooler

Copy of recent e-mail to Marine AC.com... Hi Steve, love your web site - lots of great info. ! Our company does a lot of yacht maintenance / mechanical preventive maintenance type stuff here in Wilmington, N.C. - my question is, do you have an opinion concerning back flushing the sea water lines on marine air conditioning systems ? That is, do you think there is any benefit to occasionally (2 or 3 times per season), removing the water discharge hose and connecting a dockside water hose to the … [Read more...]

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

New “Forum” Section

March 13, 2009 By Steve Pooler

Thanks to my webmaster brother Capt Scott...We now have a forum section...Whoo Hoo !!! Everyone can access it, but registration is required to post...I don't share that info...You can find the link at the top of any of Marine -AC.com's pages...Just click on "Forum"...Or you can click on this http://marine-ac.com/forum/ We are slowly growing, and I seem to notice from the searches what folks do to find Marine-A/C.com. I also see that many are either not finding the forum and/or … [Read more...]

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