T&T: AC unit differences

[Paul Brannon]

On the Cruisair units with SMX controls the compressor will restart 3 times 
then shut the system down with an error code on the display.  You must 
manually clear the code and restart the unit.

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Phillips" <bob at doylecaribbean.com>
To: <trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:53 AM
Subject: T&T: AC unit differences


>I have inadvertently and expensively learned an important difference
> between Mermaid and Cruisair units; the high pressure shutoff.  I
> somehow (it was that boat gremlin again) shut off the cooling water to
> the unit in my daughter's cabin, which has a 7500 Cruisair  unit.  She
> came home, turned on the unit, and it ran all night, the compressor
> working intermittently until the high pressure switch turned it off,
> but on it came again and again each time it cooled off, finally almost
> ruining the compressor.  It still runs, but makes quite a racket.
>
> My Mermaid units have a manually resettable high pressure cutout, so
> that if the cooling is cut off or diminished and the unit overheats,
> you have to manually reset the switch before the compressor will run
> again, meaning you know there is a problem.
>
> Bob Phillips,
> Another Asylum, Tortola, BVI
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