We don’t expect fuel or water leaks in our engine rooms, still it makes sense to take precaution where practical with electrical gear. In the case of the two fuel transfer/polishing pumps protection is provided with the drip shields shown above.
You do have to check to be sure that there is sufficient air flow for cooling. During fuel polishing the pump being used could run upwards of fifteen hours, and it will get warm. Circa will be checking for heat build up here during trials.
Posted by Steve Dashew (January 30, 2010)
February 1st, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Hi Steve,
Would you please identify the rectangular object at the bottom centre of the photo?
Cheers,
David S.
M.V.ILONA
Kingston ON
Canada
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Steve Dashew Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:19 am
Howdy David:
The block to which you refer is a fuel magnet, something we have been fitting for many years. In theory they help to kill algae. The Kiwi’s swear by them. We are not certain if they work, but we figure they can’t hurt (and we have never had a fuel bacteria problem). We’ll talk about this more in a subsequent post.
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