The other use is to pull heat out of the engine compartment when motoring.  I was talking to one of my neighbors (large live aboard power boat) and he leaves his blower on all the time at the dock.  Says it keeps any bilge odors out of the cabin. My blower is a solar-powered vent, so I don't think I'm getting enough air movement to achieve either of those goals.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Patrick Walters < ([email][/email])> wrote:

In the thread about the blowers I thought it was a very good point that diesels don't really need that like a gasoline engine does. Then today I was crawling around my lazarette writing down info on my solar panels and thought hey this blower would be useful for when after you've charged or equalized a wet cell battery…. just a thought.
 
If you have gel cells, not a problem though.
 
-p
 

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Another use for a good sparkproof blower is to remove any propane from the bilge should your propane alarm go off. This would require the blower duct to extend to the bilge sump bottom. On a diesel powered boat, propane is probably the biggest risk of fire or explosion.
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