On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Steve Heaven <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:23 +0000, Bruce Napier wrote: > >> It's a little heat exchanger between the engine coolant and the >> central heating circuit, so that waste engine heat can be used to >> boost the cabin heating, > > A boat in which we used to have a share had an override switch on the > circulating pump so that you could have the pump on even if the Alde boiler > was not running. >
The same can be done on Kismet, though again it's heat exchange through the hot water tank, so doesn't get as hot if it was running directly. On my Dad's other boat there is a car heater matrix on the cooling system. It is mounted under the bed and makes it nice and warm when it's on. My JP2 never seems to get hot enough to be able to do this sort of thing! :-( Cheers, Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
