Tartan 30
There is a fire extinguisher mounted on the outboard side of the battery compartment. It has an automatic sprinkler head on it, no way to discharge it manually. Seems to be a cutout in the compartment that leads into the engine well. (engine housing on this boat snugs up against the port berth)
2 questions:
1) where do I find one of these (never seen one before)
2) would it make more sense to have this on the inboard side of the batteries? This would place it right up against the carb side of the engine housing.
Seems to me if there is going to be a fire onboard, it's more likely to be in the engine compartment that the battery one. Of course I don't plan on any, but this arrangement seems to worry about battery fire. If there were a problem in the engine compartment, dry chem would have to work its way past the batts into engine housing. If I moved it closer to the engine side, I'd feel better.
Any comments?
Thanks
There is a fire extinguisher mounted on the outboard side of the battery compartment. It has an automatic sprinkler head on it, no way to discharge it manually. Seems to be a cutout in the compartment that leads into the engine well. (engine housing on this boat snugs up against the port berth)
2 questions:
1) where do I find one of these (never seen one before)
2) would it make more sense to have this on the inboard side of the batteries? This would place it right up against the carb side of the engine housing.
Seems to me if there is going to be a fire onboard, it's more likely to be in the engine compartment that the battery one. Of course I don't plan on any, but this arrangement seems to worry about battery fire. If there were a problem in the engine compartment, dry chem would have to work its way past the batts into engine housing. If I moved it closer to the engine side, I'd feel better.
Any comments?
Thanks
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