solentseadog

Just to say a big thank you to everyone for your feedback and ideas. Much appreciated.

Many thanks Athy, I had used your contact us form to notify your website of the problem but looks like your reply beat me to it! Thanks for sorting out the duplication. Kind regards, Solentseadog

Hi, I am a newbie to this forums but have been boating all my life. Recent been trying to spend more time off grid with no shore power. This presents the problem of power generation (as we all know and as has been extensively written about), and also the problem of hot water for showers etc... I have been looking at upgrading from a suitcase style generator to a fitted generator. Fitted generators require cooling of course and many use a water circuit for this - either direct through the hull, or via a closed circuit / heat exchanger system, or even via an oil cooling circuit. Anyway I wondered of anyone has experience or thoughts on connecting the generator cooling circuit to a calorifier tank so that water is heated when the generator is running? I already have a circuit from my engine that heats the water in the calorifier so is there any reason not to have something similar from the generator? Thanks in advance for any input.