I’m looking for fuel system advice, re installing a Dickson wall mount heater in my ‘91 Hunter 30T.
The heater is now mounted on the starboard wall/bulkhead between the V berth and the kitchen table, with a 12v wired propane alarm at the floor below it, and chimney ready to fire. The best place I see to build a propane locker is the upper starboard lazerette, just behind the wheel, as it’s the only place high enough to vent a compartment for a 10lb tank. In the locker goes the tank, a regulator, a solenoid switch, and perhaps another alarm, though I’m wary of the added electric draw.
Questions:
1. Should I bother building the locker or just put the regulator et. al. in the lazarette and rail mount the tank outside?
2. If I rail mount the tank, should I choose a different lazarette for the regulator? Note only the adjacent port lazarette has an easy exit for the propane hose, where shore power usually runs. However, this is the lazarette with all the electrical - master switch, shore power charger, etc. Not sure if that’s safest.
3. Design ideas to build and vent the full propane locker, presuming I put it as planned in the upper starboard lazerette.
4. Where best to run the propane line (a heavy duty rubber hose about 3/4”) from heater to tank: centrally through the floors, along the walls through the cabinets, under the fridge?
Thanks, in advance…
The heater is now mounted on the starboard wall/bulkhead between the V berth and the kitchen table, with a 12v wired propane alarm at the floor below it, and chimney ready to fire. The best place I see to build a propane locker is the upper starboard lazerette, just behind the wheel, as it’s the only place high enough to vent a compartment for a 10lb tank. In the locker goes the tank, a regulator, a solenoid switch, and perhaps another alarm, though I’m wary of the added electric draw.
Questions:
1. Should I bother building the locker or just put the regulator et. al. in the lazarette and rail mount the tank outside?
2. If I rail mount the tank, should I choose a different lazarette for the regulator? Note only the adjacent port lazarette has an easy exit for the propane hose, where shore power usually runs. However, this is the lazarette with all the electrical - master switch, shore power charger, etc. Not sure if that’s safest.
3. Design ideas to build and vent the full propane locker, presuming I put it as planned in the upper starboard lazerette.
4. Where best to run the propane line (a heavy duty rubber hose about 3/4”) from heater to tank: centrally through the floors, along the walls through the cabinets, under the fridge?
Thanks, in advance…