wow cost to repair marine air system
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As bizarre as it sounds, could you retrofit to an older 3 dial system. They are cheaper and there is a lot to be said for the simplicity and recovery ability after a power outage.
If not, there are a ton of companies in TX who do circuit board repair. Most will give you a hand if they are familiar with the board.
If not, there are a ton of companies in TX who do circuit board repair. Most will give you a hand if they are familiar with the board.
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I just replaced a marine air unit(1994)with an ocean breeze unit and new control. I beleive I had a bad compressor, do you think any of the parts I have can help you. The wall mount temp control is a "Environmrntal Control Unit". I also have the larger control box that mounted by the unit. My unit was a 12,000 btu.
Good luck
Niles
Good luck
Niles
welcome to marine air...more than likely you will need the "pair" repaired and the tech is right the parts to repair are what he says for one board. There used to be a place in FL, that sold match sets of boards for just under a $1K..but your boards had to be turned in as exchange.
This nonsense and the fact that the vendor will not release schematics or voltage charts, so I can repair my own board - are what lead me to just scrap the Marine Air and go with Flagship units on my boat. That single board repair cost is about 1/2 the price of a new unit...and BTW, you likely still have an aged compressor and dryer and solenoid.
Choices are...new unit, or pay Marine Air
This nonsense and the fact that the vendor will not release schematics or voltage charts, so I can repair my own board - are what lead me to just scrap the Marine Air and go with Flagship units on my boat. That single board repair cost is about 1/2 the price of a new unit...and BTW, you likely still have an aged compressor and dryer and solenoid.
Choices are...new unit, or pay Marine Air
If all works, but the compressor is not getting power, the board has a burned out relay. Here is a link to the relay, less than $5.00. I replace about 3 of these a year in my marina for slip mates.
When you remove the board turn it over and you will see the melted/burned terminal on this relay.
It does take some knowledge of electricity and how to remove and replace a relay on a board without damaging them.
I would only recommend doing this if you know what you are doing.
link to the bad relay
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=Z1006-ND
part Z1006-ND
Gary
When you remove the board turn it over and you will see the melted/burned terminal on this relay.
It does take some knowledge of electricity and how to remove and replace a relay on a board without damaging them.
I would only recommend doing this if you know what you are doing.
link to the bad relay
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=Z1006-ND
part Z1006-ND
Gary
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"As bizarre as it sounds, could you retrofit to an older 3 dial system. They are cheaper and there is a lot to be said for the simplicity and recovery ability after a power outage."
Not sure what you mean here... Electronic controls (at least all of those I've used ) restart just fine after a power outage or after switching between shore and genset
$750 is a lot of money for those boards... Check this guy out, Steve http://marine-ac.com/, he s helped a lot of us on the Hatt forum
Not sure what you mean here... Electronic controls (at least all of those I've used ) restart just fine after a power outage or after switching between shore and genset
$750 is a lot of money for those boards... Check this guy out, Steve http://marine-ac.com/, he s helped a lot of us on the Hatt forum
Good point Pascal. Poor choice of words on my part. We have terrible power at my marina. I thought it was the meters on my boat however I learned differently over the 4th of July weekend.
Low power will set and display a "LO AC" and the unit will not reset. A dockmate with a 4588 Bayliner has the rotary. She never has that problem.
Sorry for the confusion.
I have same unit(albeit probably different vintage)--Contact Marine Air (Dometic) and ask them to let you know the supplier of the board for your particular unit. Then contact the supplier directly. I sent my unit to the supplier and had a rebuild for $140 about 4 years ago. Dometic was very helpful in telling me the supplier.