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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...]

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

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 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

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

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

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...]

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

Pumps & High Pressure…With Manual Controls & Hi Pressure Switch

August 10, 2009 By Steve Pooler

Recently I was on a boating message board and came across a discussion about pumps and some troubles folks had experienced. The original poster had a March magnetic drive pump that would not pump water, and after the usual back flush & priming sugguestions he could still not get it to pump water…Just before I read the thread he had found that either something had gotten past the strainer (or he didn't have one) and had lodged between the impeller magnet and the pump housing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, AC/Systems, Maintence Tips, Marine AC Tagged With: boat ac troubleshooting, Boat Air Conditioning, Cruisair, Fix my A/C, High Head Pressure, Marine A/C maintenance, marine ac troubleshooting, Pumps, Strainer, 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...]

Filed Under: DIY Questions Tagged With: ac iceing, Boat A/C, Boat A/C forum, boat ac troubleshooting, Fix my A/C, High Head Pressure, Marine A/C forum, Marine A/C maintenance, marine ac iceing, marine ac troubleshooting, Strainer, West Coast of Florida, Yacht A/C, yacht ac troubleshooting