DHeckrotte
Guru
We discovered last week, by finding our Coon Hound with a wet ear, that the salon air conditioner's condensate pan was overflowing. Turns out that the drain hose went 'up' before it went 'down'. Apparently, running the AC for several days in humid heat was enough to fill the pan but not by running it for shorter periods.
So, I bailed out the under-settee spaces and re-routed the drain hose so that gravity would have effect. I so doing, I either slopped water on the wiring's split-type corrugated tubing, or the wiring had been laying in water for long enough. The AC began 'spatting' and the motors began hesitating. Shut it down, moved the wiring bundles out of the remaining water and went home, thinking that a week would be enough to dry things out.
Went down this weekend and...not. Spent several hours on my knees in 90 deg humidity, un-cabling the wiring, re-routing it, and trying to find where it was shorting. Unsuccessful for a number of hours; each time I did something I'd try the system, spatting would continue. Finally, I opened up the control box which would sound and smell like a spark with the spats. No water showed anywhere. However opening the box gave me the ability to unplug a cable and re-rout it neatly and definitively out of the condensate. All became well. And stayed well after I reassembled and re-cabled everything.
We were out on a mooring, running the genset. Each time any of the three compressors started, the genset revs would hesitate a moment. I have almost learned to ignore it. Should I?
So, I bailed out the under-settee spaces and re-routed the drain hose so that gravity would have effect. I so doing, I either slopped water on the wiring's split-type corrugated tubing, or the wiring had been laying in water for long enough. The AC began 'spatting' and the motors began hesitating. Shut it down, moved the wiring bundles out of the remaining water and went home, thinking that a week would be enough to dry things out.
Went down this weekend and...not. Spent several hours on my knees in 90 deg humidity, un-cabling the wiring, re-routing it, and trying to find where it was shorting. Unsuccessful for a number of hours; each time I did something I'd try the system, spatting would continue. Finally, I opened up the control box which would sound and smell like a spark with the spats. No water showed anywhere. However opening the box gave me the ability to unplug a cable and re-rout it neatly and definitively out of the condensate. All became well. And stayed well after I reassembled and re-cabled everything.
We were out on a mooring, running the genset. Each time any of the three compressors started, the genset revs would hesitate a moment. I have almost learned to ignore it. Should I?