{"id":25742,"date":"2012-10-16T04:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T09:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=25742"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:53:14","slug":"thermostat-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/thermostat-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermostat Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Thermostat-test-1011.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Thermostat-test-1011.jpg\" alt=\"Thermostat test 1011\" width=\"720\" height=\"520\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our starboard engine has been running a touch cooler than the port, so we pulled the thermostats to check them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Thermostat-test-1010.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Thermostat-test-10101.jpg\" alt=\"Thermostat test 1010\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heating them up in a pan of water showed them starting to open at 160 degrees F and fully open by 175. This seems normal, but we replaced them with spares anyway. Engine temps are from our mechanical Murphy gauges, so the senders are not likely wrong.<\/p>\n<p>After installing the new t-stats, the engine still runs a little cooler than its brother, 165F compared to 175F with sea water temperature about 60F at cruise RPM.<\/p>\n<p>Impellers are new on the raw water pumps, heat exchangers are clean.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our starboard engine has been running a touch cooler than the port, so we pulled the thermostats to check them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25898,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25742\/revisions\/25898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}