{"id":9970,"date":"2009-12-21T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/alternator-cooling\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:26:11","slug":"alternator-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/alternator-cooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternator Cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"091221-001\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/091221-001.jpg\" width=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big alternators require substantial air flow to keep them cool.This requirement is often at odds with the need to protect the drive belts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"091221-002\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/091221-002.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the alternators do not have good air flow their efficiency drops and the diodes, bearings, and windings lead a hard and relatively short life.<\/p>\n<p>This is not as big an issue if you are using alternators with remote diode assemblies (as we are on the FPB 64s), but it is still a concern.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"091221-003\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/091221-003.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most engine manufacturers have tight belt guards which cut down on cooling. In a yacht with a small battery bank and light DC loads you can get away with this. But not with bigger systems if you expect long alternator life.<\/p>\n<p>Circa&#8217;s elegant solution is shown in these photos. There is visual openness for cursory inspection, and good air flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big alternators require substantial air flow to keep them cool.This requirement is often at odds with the need to protect <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/alternator-cooling\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970"}],"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=9970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}