Luvalee Operations Manual
May 1, 2003
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EMERGENCY STARTING:
The Pathmaker toggle switch is on the main power panel.
Press the switch to ‘MANUAL ON’ for a moment, and all battery banks will be tied
together for starting. This will only last for 5 minutes before isolating the batteries again.
If the engines still will not start, you will have use the generator or shore power to charge
all the batteries.
2.
STARTING and STOPPING MAIN ENGINES
After your engine room check, you are ready to start main engines.
Port Engine Instruments
NOTE:
the KEYs are used to turn on the starter buttons and to stop the engines.
The
START
button
for each engine is
not a ‘Kill’ button
. Stop the engines by turning
off the key.
If engines have been off for over 8 hours, make sure they run for at least 5 minutes and
that the temperature gauges show at least 140 before going over 900 RPM. Running
underway with cold engines can more than double fuel consumption and can cause
engine failure.
Once engines are running, check exhaust pipes to make sure water is coming out of each
exhaust. If not, shut down the engines and redo the pre-start check.
NOTE:
The engines have electric intake air heaters that are used when the engines are
cold and will cause the low voltage warning to sound. Press the “Alarm Reset” button as
needed to turn off the warning. Setting the engines to idle at 800-900 rpm will usually
keep the voltage high enough to keep from setting off the warning. Warning may repeat
until the engines are warm. Push “Alarm Reset” as needed.
