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ssullivan · 01-01-2006, 18:01

Hi Jack,

I have to ask a couple of quesitons regarding your setup as well. Through the forum, I met a nice guy named Mark who is selling me a cold plate system.

It's currently cooled via salt water intake with through hull. After reading this thread, I really like the sound of your setup. Much more logical, and I have always hated drilling any new holes in hulls. Call it paranoia.

So given a standard salt water system, could I simply do away with the sea strainer and ciculate fresh water through it? How, exactly did you tee off your fresh water tanks to cycle water through a heat exchanger, and then return that water? Also, is the water taste affected by going through a heat exchanger? Mine's bound to have a lot of junk in it since sea water had previously been flowing through.i Any ideas on how to combat that?

Thanks in advance for any info. I really think this is an intelligent approach to this problem.

PS: My sea water (or soon to be circulating) pump has a throughput of 5 gals/min. Is this on the same order of what you have? I ask since I wanted to find out a little bit about the raising temp of the drinking/fresh water. Also, my tank is 55 gals.

01-01-2006, 18:01	#11
ssullivan Senior Cruiser Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,530	Hi Jack, I have to ask a couple of quesitons regarding your setup as well. Through the forum, I met a nice guy named Mark who is selling me a cold plate system. It's currently cooled via salt water intake with through hull. After reading this thread, I really like the sound of your setup. Much more logical, and I have always hated drilling any new holes in hulls. Call it paranoia. So given a standard salt water system, could I simply do away with the sea strainer and ciculate fresh water through it? How, exactly did you tee off your fresh water tanks to cycle water through a heat exchanger, and then return that water? Also, is the water taste affected by going through a heat exchanger? Mine's bound to have a lot of junk in it since sea water had previously been flowing through.i Any ideas on how to combat that? Thanks in advance for any info. I really think this is an intelligent approach to this problem. PS: My sea water (or soon to be circulating) pump has a throughput of 5 gals/min. Is this on the same order of what you have? I ask since I wanted to find out a little bit about the raising temp of the drinking/fresh water. Also, my tank is 55 gals.