Dave Gerr - Boat Mechanical Systems Handbook-How to Design, Install, and Recognize Proper Systems in Boats
This would be six 4-inch ventilators, which is not likely to be practical. You could approach this requirement by using, say, fo ...
Solar-Powered Air One of the best solutions for getting air below is the solar-powered mushroom vent (Figure 14-9). Standard 4-i ...
cabin side), there are remote solar panels available to power each vent. Electric-Powered Air: Blowers and Ducts Larger boats ma ...
ventilation duct is complex, but a simple approximation can be used for small, ducted systems up to about 14 feet (4.3 m) long, ...
ineffective, the velocity was so low that lint from the dryer collected in the duct, largely clogging it and creating a fire haz ...
acceptable, but it has a rather high speed and can produce a high-pitched whine. This is not a problem in machinery compartments ...
installing the vent. When the hatches are closed, the vents work well. The drawback is that you effectively lose the vents when ...
Air-Conditioning Though 30 or 40 years ago air-conditioning was primarily a luxury found in large vessels, today more boats and ...
chilled water. Chilled-water systems (also termed “tempered-water systems”) are in- tended for larger vessels—over 75 feet (23 m ...
more than an air-conditioning unit in which the compressor and condenser have been sep- arated from the air handler (the evapora ...
as a home project (a fairly big one) with pretty much everything in one location. Since they are generally simpler to install, t ...
Where Btu= British thermal units Disp. tons= boat displacement in long tons or metric tons The standard method for determining r ...
Chapter 15: Air-Conditioning and Heating air-conditioner operation underway and at anchor, however, you simply must have a gen s ...
preserving the same margin for extra loads. This is even more important on larger vessels with 32,000 Btu air-conditioners or gr ...
Almost all air-conditioning seawater pumps are magnetic-drive centrifugal pumps. Such pumps don’t have shaft seals to worry abou ...
Notes on Refrigeration As with air-conditioning, the widespread installation of refrigeration is a relatively new development. T ...
2 .House-style, front-opening electric refrigerators and freezers. These are usually powered with 120 volts AC but may be powere ...
to electricity. (Every conversion from one type of energy to another involves losses.) If you are not aboard to run the engine, ...
4 .Diesel or kerosene bulkhead heaters 5 .Engine-heat heaters 6 .Diesel-fired hot-air heaters 7 .Diesel-fired hot-water heaters ...
Even tinier were the old Fatsco Pet and Tiny Tot stoves. The Pet was a bare 11^3 / 4 inches high and 10^1 / 2 inches in diameter ...
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