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britinusa
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Initially Posted - 08/03/2006 : 12:19:08

Just completed our first cruze with our new A/C unit, here's the review.

We were on the water for 7 days, on the boat for 5 nights.

Power for A/C provided by our Subaru Robin 1700W generator.

Most nights the air temp was in the low 90's high 80's. We also ran it around midday at anchor when the temp rose into the 100's.

The A/C has two controls.
Off/Fan/Run
Warmer /cooler thermostat.

On our first night we had the condensate draining into a 2 gallon jug, but the rate of condensate water was nowhere near the 1/2 gallon per hour the manufacture stated, more like 1 pint per hour.
After that I just routed the condensate drain tube into the bilge. We would pump it out every morining if needed.

We had to prime the water delivery pump when we first flashed up the A/C unit. Despite the plumbing being as per instuctions, the pump could not overcome the air in the line. I used the new blaster pump to flush water down the outflow pipe on the port side. Once primed we did not have to prime it again during the entire trip.

The fan provided great air circulation so the entire cabin was cooled nicely. The noise of the generator drowned out the noise of the fan and the A/C condenser. The water pump was so quite I had to put my hand on it to confirm it was making any noise at all.
Using the unit on shore power is going to be joy!

When the unit transistioned from off to fan, the generator would rev up, and again when from fan to run if the thermostat was set to cool lower than the current temp.

Oddly enough the noise in the quarter berth was less than the noise in the v berth, I guess the cabin gets the direct noise, from the generator, but the q-berth only gets the vibration noise. Both the v-berth and the q-berth were very comfortably cooled.

If any critisism in the unit, I would suggest that the thermostat has a very wide transistion range, we could rotate the control knob by 20degrees before it would cause the unit to either start or stop, that's quite a temperature range. (there are no temperature markings on the controller)

Other than that, the unit worked great, being able to use the cabin at night and not take a sweat bath at the same time is great!

Quote from the admiral <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">The best money we have spent on the boat!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

I guess that she is not still blowing hot-n-cold over the $2,000 it cost to buy and the bits to install it! (not including the $900 generator)
Go figure.

My general impression " Yep! worth the money ".
Paul.

Joint Decision. (Sold)
PO C250WB 2005 Sail # 841.

Moved up to C34 Eximius

Updated August 2015

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