CONDITIONING PLANTS
SPLIT and COMPACT models
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6.4.- CONDENSATE
During the cooling cycle, conditioners produce condensate in considerable quantity, above all in humid days.
If you do maintenance or repair work on board, make sure that condensate goes overboard. Since conden-
sate is fresh water, it shouldn't drip on electrical or wood structures. If drained into a bilge it could easily cause
a very impleasant odour. So it is better to keep it in a limited and evacuated area. Therefore you should use
a little container with a few liters capacity linked to an automatic pump. You must considere that the conden-
sate outlet is exposed to a negative pressure, when the conditioner is running. This means that it can suck up
air from the outlet, then it shouldn't be close to exhaust or to any source of poison gases.
6.5.- ELECTROLYSYS
Electrolysys can cause dangerous sea water leaks deteriorating through-hull and other fittings. When you find
out an electrolysys, you must search the cause and repair the failure before starting the conditioner.
6.6.- EXPLOSIONS
The operation of an air-conditioner means the production of sparks (circuit breakages, relays, etc…) which are
capable of ignition fumes and7or vapours. To remove such fumes and vapours, ventilating blowers should be
operated at least 5 minutes before starting the unit and kept running until the air-conditioner is running.
IMPORTANT:
Never sleep in an enclosed space on a yacht, when combustion plants
(motors, electrical generators, etc…) are running. The combustion gases discharge system
could break down and poison gases could come in, where you are sleeping. The conditioner
fan always runs, after having switched on the main circuit breaker.
