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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

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

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

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...]