A.C. Refit

[Shark1007]

Folks

I'm spending money like a drunken sailor "cherrying" out my 38 Special Bertram. The a.c. in the cabin was adequate, but you had to wait a while for it to cool the cabin and it was a bit noisy from the 20 year old compressor.

It's always a financial judgement on what to do, but I bit the bullet and replaced the old cruisair self contained unit with a new one using the SMXII controls with the remote. What an improvement! the new one is super quiet and will blow your hat off wile cooling the cabin completely in 1/10 the time of the old. The new controls are a dream and you can program a dehumidify mode which looks great to me! The new unit is much smaller, has a heavy plastic drip pan and seems engineered like it's from a different century.

Just a kudo to cruisair,I think it's the best money on refurb I have spent so far, wish I had done it earlier, probably would have slept better.

[Fubar512]

We have four Cruisairs on the 54 Hatt that I run (1 each for the salon, owner's stateroom, fwd stateroom, and the staboard stateroom). When they're all on, the boat can be cooled to a ridiculously cool temp, on even a 100-degree day. The downside is that they need clean, 50-amp service, which some marinas don't supply. To compensate, we have a power-conditioner installed on the 50 AMP circuit. Without it, half the units would trip their control panels, returning a low-voltage error on the displays.

BTW, that's never a problem when running on the genset (20 KW).

[Shark1007]

We have four Cruisairs on the 54 Hatt that I run (1 each for the salon, owner's stateroom, fwd stateroom, and the staboard stateroom). When they're all on, the boat can be cooled to a ridiculously cool temp, on even a 100-degree day. The downside is that they need clean, 50-amp service, which some marinas don't supply. To compensate, we have a power-conditioner installed on the 50 AMP circuit. Without it, half the units would trip their control panels, returning a low-voltage error on the displays.

BTW, that's never a problem when running on the genset (20 KW).

My crew always said they coulld tell if I was sleeping on the boat... they could see the condensate dripping off the side of the boat before they got to the slip. I like it cool too. Tell me about the power conditioner, I have the low voltage crap on my Hatteras at the marina.

[Fubar512]

My crew always said they coulld tell if I was sleeping on the boat... they could see the condensate dripping off the side of the boat before they got to the slip. I like it cool too. Tell me about the power conditioner, I have the low voltage crap on my Hatteras at the marina.

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[OReely]

Folks

...engineered like it's from a different century.

It is.

[Shark1007]

Here you go: http://www.charlesindustries.com/main/ma_smartboost.html

Thanks, Fubar..I'm on it! I have the same issue in the Bahamas with low voltage when I leave the boat at Treasure Cay and worry about the units.