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Originally Posted by Pelagic
I guess my dislike for propane is a result of twice witnessing gas explosions and deaths on other boats at anchor.
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I understand the impact on you of your experience. It doesn't matter. Neither does my experience with boat fires either nominal or catastrophic. Our experience is simply not statistically significant.
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Originally Posted by Pelagic
For me, it was the stuff of nightmares, whereas electrical resistance and load is constantly mesureable and each item is monitored and breakered independently for load abnormalities
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"Measurable" does not mean "measured." If my pushback on the word "safer" leads to more concern and attention to high
current draw sustained loads my karma will be increased.
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Originally Posted by Montanan
"Boils water faster"
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The article you cited is a comparison with conventional resistive
electric cooking. The only benefit of induction with respect to gas
cooking is the greater heat transfer (thermal transfer efficiency) of induction. To really get heat on the target properly sized gas burners do better at the cost of more residual heat (warmer boat interiors in our application).
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Originally Posted by cj88
I then started wondering how to deal with the more common occurence (by comparison) of a fire which made me wonder about installing something like the BlazeCut Automatic Fire Suppression System. Anybody have experience with this sort of fire prevention system and its applicability?
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FE-36 extinguishing agent is good stuff. It's non-toxic and avoids the environmental impact of previous standards. When I can't keep my
engine room Halon system going anymore the replacement will probably be based on that.
Note that in flooding applications
displacement of oxygen is more deadly than toxicity.
My preference would be for a system that includes it's own
alarm when triggered. Separate heat and smoke detection has great value but I want to know if the fire suppression system has triggered (false positive) or leaked down.
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Originally Posted by Pelagic
I think your greatest defense against fire on board is to increase your comfort level by improving your situation in 3 Areas.
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I agree with your fire response and fighting thoughts.
They are not a replacement for the
maintenance of electrical systems (in this context). That means regular checks of all high
current systems: disassemble, inspect, clean, assemble, torque connections. Regular checks, more frequent, of temperature and of voltage drop under load. Regular checks, less frequent of high
power systems (this is the high voltage side in the case of induction).