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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 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

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

Used Marine Air 16K Self Contained Cool/Heat A/C Unit w/Digital Control…SOLD….

November 13, 2009 By Steve Pooler

Edit: This unit SOLD.....We now list used units in the classified section of Marine-AC.com...We presently have a Newer 16 K Cruisair unit listed See: http://marine-ac.com/classifieds/113 Unit model VRE16K-H (Rotary Compressor) 16,000 BTU 115 volt. Serial 11844 Digital Control is a Marine Air Passport AH (White) The unit came from a Grand Banks Trawler that was for sale at a dealer I do service for. It had a bad control board and a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sold Tagged With: Boat A/C, Boat Air Conditioning, Marine AC, Marine Air, Used Marine A/C, Yacht A/C, 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

Marine A/C Pumps and Pump Relays

August 7, 2009 By Steve Pooler

We have touched on seawater cooling and lack of...Now what about if you have a intermittent problem, or the pump won't start at all ? In boats with multiple systems running on one seawater pump there is most likely a Pump Relay to receive a signal from each system to tell the pump it needs to run...That is unless it has been bypassed and the pump runs 24/7 from the breaker ( I see this done fairly often) Lets start with the breaker in the main panel...Most are labeled A/C pump or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AC/Systems, Maintence Tips, Pump Relays Tagged With: Boat Air Conditioning, Fix my A/C, Florida, marine ac troubleshooting, Pump Relays, Pumps, Steve Pooler, West Coast of Florida, Yacht A/C, 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

Hello to Boat A/C Owners

October 16, 2008 By Steve Pooler

I'd like to say hello and offer my plans for this site... First & Foremost...True to my history in the marine maintenance and air conditioning business...I'd like to help the boat owner with their A/C & Refrigeration systems. I am always happy to share my experience, from the most minor advice...To major cooling or refrigeration upgrade plans...Questions will always be welcome on this site, share your thoughts and experiences, join the conversation about marine A/C maintenance … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Site Info Tagged With: Boat A/C, Fix my A/C, Yacht A/C