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Well no luck selling the 311. I'm fine with that though. Entertaining the thought of adding some form of A/C where the old fridge was ( I removed long time ago). We are moving forward with securing a covered slip at our local marina and having a lift installed. The 311 has the shore power socket but to my knowledge the only thing that runs off of it is the fridge that isn't there anymore and possibly a built in battery charger that is integrated into the dist panel. Any thoughts? We just aren't finding any genny and ac 382's... was on the line for the Fossil Fuel 382 it was perfect in every way for us. It ended up going for pretty good money as it should have.
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Tyler, adding AC shouldn’t be too big of an issue. The cabin is small enough that only a couple outlets facing forward should be more than enough to cool it with 6k btu.
I have a window unit that was converted to water-cooled evap. I was planning to mount in the fridge space but it will probably go under the sink instead (my sink was gone a long time ago). My only issues with doing the install… remote control and time. I still plan to do it. Maybe next spring.
It’ll be interesting to follow along with what you do on yours. Maybe we can do the installs together.
My boat is setup a little differently than yours. My aC panel is not integrated with the charger like some I’ve seen. I’m not sure why either. My charger sits under the rear bench opposite of the battery switch and breaker panel.
I have a window unit that was converted to water-cooled evap. I was planning to mount in the fridge space but it will probably go under the sink instead (my sink was gone a long time ago). My only issues with doing the install… remote control and time. I still plan to do it. Maybe next spring.
It’ll be interesting to follow along with what you do on yours. Maybe we can do the installs together.
My boat is setup a little differently than yours. My aC panel is not integrated with the charger like some I’ve seen. I’m not sure why either. My charger sits under the rear bench opposite of the battery switch and breaker panel.
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I don’t have a macerator port on mine. I was going to tie it into the output of the port sea strainer. That was the plan anyway.
The harder part is getting a pump that will work without having priming problems. When the previous owner had my boat, he had a water hose hooked to the fresh water flush connection on the side of the boat. He’d hook up a hose at the marina where he was staying and use that for cooling the heat exchanger.
I did some testing for water flow/heat absorption… it doesn’t take a lot of water to keep it efficient. That would be a workable solution, but you’d have to have access to water.
The harder part is getting a pump that will work without having priming problems. When the previous owner had my boat, he had a water hose hooked to the fresh water flush connection on the side of the boat. He’d hook up a hose at the marina where he was staying and use that for cooling the heat exchanger.
I did some testing for water flow/heat absorption… it doesn’t take a lot of water to keep it efficient. That would be a workable solution, but you’d have to have access to water.




