The port cockpit locker vents the cooling air from the Adler Barbour through a vent into our cabin. This often creates an unpleasant smell in the cabin. If I close the vent, I'm afraid it will over heat the Adler Barbour. Is there a way to reverse the van so the air is pulled from the cabin instead..or is there another solution to this issue. Joeclark57
My first thought is that any smelly air would be from the cockpit locker, or ultimately from the aft bilge. The Adler Barber unit is probably not the source of the smell, but merely the 'propellor' that scoots cockpit locker odors along in to the cabin.
Larry Brandt
S/V High Flight #2109
Pacific Northwest, PDX-based
2002 C-36 mkII SR/FK M35B
THank you Larry, and the solution is ....turn the propeller around so that it blows aft instead of forward and clean out the locker , aft lockers and bilge...can the propeller be flipped somehow?
I have no idea if if might work. Switch the wires on the fan? It S/B a DC motor? Is the fan going to work as well? Just guessing out loud.
Chuck Lennox
97 MKii Ventura Ca
Island Girl Hull #1611
It's supposed to draw air in from the cabin, not exhaust into the cabin. Most DC fans are not reversible and are protected against this. The fans in the Cold Machines are designed to be physically reversed in order to change air flow direction. This is the path of least resistance.
Nick Caballero
Retired C36/375IA Mk II Technical Editor
Joe, I have the AB unit in cockpit locker also but it is not vented to or from the cabin. It just blows air around the cockpit locker. It has never overheated that I can remember so it might be ok if you block the vent assuming it will take air from the cockpit locker instead.
Pat T, 1995 TR, wing keel, #1388
"Liberty Call"
Burnham Harbor, Chicago
Pat,
It depends on where you sail and the ambient temperatures. In warmer climes, the A/B unit will be working harder and harder to pull heat out of the fridge if it cannot disperse the heat from the cockpit locker. Up north, with cold water and cooler ambient temps, just about any configuration will work. The further south you go, the more amps will be gobbled up. Just a thought.
Tom Sokoloski
C36/375IA Past Commodore
Noank, CT
Thanks everyone for your comments and advice. I sail on the Chesapeake and it does get hot and humid in Summer. I think I will try to reverse the fan on the cool machine and go from there.