Suggestions for Espar Installation Pls.

[Sailing Steve]

I'm getting ready to install my new Espar Airtronic D4 into L'Abri, which has a walk through transom.  I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions before I started drilling holes...  I've read all of the previous posts that I could find, and generally everyone seems to prefer mounting in the aft port locker, plumbing the exhaust to the port side, aft.

I am assuming that the actual mounting location is beneath the locker, and not in it???  Does anyone have a photograph that they could post, or e-mail me of their installation, or a detailed description of how the unit is actually mounted?

The other question that I have is, is there a need to run a duct for each the combustion air intake, and the fresh air intake, or can one leave them to both gather air from the area where the unit is mounted?  If a duct is required for either, where do you suggest the intake vent be located.

Thanks for any input.

Steve

'90 L'Abri
Hull# 1080

[Stu Jackson]

Steve

Be verrry careful -- the fuel tank is below that port locker!!!

I'll leave the Espar specialists to answer your other questions.  Good luck with the project.

BTW -- why not take before, during and after pictures of YOUR work and write it up and send it to us, so your questions can be answered and "captured" for the next guys?

[Sailing Steve]

I will take the photos that you suggested Stu.  I had intended to photograph the removal and cleaning of the fuel tank earlier in the year as well, but I forgot my camera on "game day." 

[Stu Jackson]

Steve

Congratulations, because you said Game Day.  I can't think of anything, other than a DAYsail, that has taken me less than two!

[Sailing Steve]

The fuel tank was a single day go, but I fear that the heater is going to be the better part of a week!  I too suffer from chronic under estimation, and/or unforeseen problems! 

[Sailing Steve]

Yesterday I had occasion to remove the wood panels in the aft cabin, so I took advantage of the opening and crawled into the aft storage with the Espar in my hot little hands.  I don't see any obvious mounting locations...  Perhaps, and I don't like this idea, from the sole of the cockpit, directly between the AC shore power connector and the LPG compartment.  There is not enough room above the fuel tank, which is below the port locker.  In the port locker doesn't thrill me, but if that is in fact where most people have it, then so be it...

Can anyone comment on specifically where theirs are mounted please?

Thanks,
Steve

[Craig Illman]

My Arctic is located in the cockpit port lazerette, not the rear port locker, above the fuel tank. It's mounted on a plywood pane; attached to the port side of the hull. Sorry, don't have any pictures. The combustion intake/exhaust comes up just outside of the port turning block. Intake ventilation air comes in from the lazerette. It's ventilation output drops down to above the fuel tank. One path goes into the aft cabin just ahead of the fuel tank, the other comes out at the bottom of the wet locker just aft of the nav table.

- Craig

[Sailing Steve]

Thanks Craig.  Sounds like in the lazerette is the place to be.