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Originally Posted by Shrew
You're going to do a permanent install, below decks, of an air cooled, air exhaust portable generator?
1) You're going to have an issue with heat
2) You're going to have an issue with properly exhausting it.
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I am having a FP
Lavezzi cat with seperate
engine rooms at the transom. There is nothing in beside
engine and saildrives, even hot
water boilers are under the
bed in the aft cabins taking heat out of the engine rooms.
1) no heat issues as the gas gen and the engine won‘t run at the same time. Tested that already with the Honda eu22i from my buddy
boat. If I accidentally need to I simply open the engine room door.
2) no issue with properly exhausting it, there is actually already an exhaust installed with thruhull from an old webasto
heating that fits for a 2000W gen, for the Honda eu22i you can get the same diameter I have installed. An additional air Feed from outside is installed 2 for the webasto.
3) an outboard tank will be used, venting tube goes directly to the outside.
Alternatively I can just run a pipe from the outboard tank that’s stored outside under the
solar arch/Davits.that adds gravity feeding…and build a box for the gen that’s mounted outside under the solar arch, disadvantage I loose the additional damping from the engine bay/room.
I have to open the engine room door anyhow to pull the starter, so any fumes that could be there evaporate to the outside.
As said thats for use 10 times a year as
emergency backup, not for daily use…which you actually could.