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Advanced marine electrics and electronics troubleshooting : a manual for boatowners and marine technicians / Ed Sherman.

By: Sherman, Edwin R [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Camden, Maine : International Marine/ McGraw-Hill, [2012]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xiii, 218 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780071810777 (paperback).Subject(s): Boats and boating -- Electric equipment -- Maintenance and repair | Boats and boating -- Electronic equipmentDDC classification: 623.8503
Contents:
Marine troubleshooting the modern way -- Finding your way -- Electrics versus electronics -- Basic troubleshooting steps -- Testing batteries, charging systems, and starter circuits, and measuring voltage drop -- Catalysts for change -- Conductance battery tester -- Diagnostic meter -- Value and utility -- Testing continuity and tracing circuits -- Tone-generating circuit tracer -- Alphanumeric time domain reflectometer -- Value and utility -- Testing AC and grounding systems for polarity, voltage drop, impedance, and frequency -- The suretest circuit analyzer -- Value and utility -- Temperature monitoring as a diagnostic aid -- Infrared heat-sensing gun -- Other uses for temperature monitoring -- Value and utility -- Using power factor to determine energy efficiency -- Understanding power factor -- Improving your power factor -- Determining power consumption -- Using a power analyzer -- Value and utility -- Analyzing harmonic distortion -- Do you need a scope? -- AC loads -- Harmonic distortion -- Value and utility -- Using a laptop for intermittent problems -- Laptop link-ups -- Real-world examples -- Testing for electromagnetic and radio frequency interference -- Understanding electromagnetic interference -- Standards and regulations -- Common sources and victims of interference -- Tools of the trade -- Testing for residual current and isolating its sources -- AC leakage from appliances -- Using a clamp-on AC leak tester -- AC leakage from degraded insulation -- Using a megohmmeter -- Value and utility -- A basic corrosion survey -- Tools of the trade -- Underwater metal corrosion and protection basics -- Conducting a corrosion survey -- Grounding systems -- Lightning protection -- Grounding to minimize RFI effects -- Comparing ABYC and NMEA grounding standards -- Troubleshooting redux -- Marine electronics installation and troubleshooting -- Electronic equipment installation guidelines -- Ergonomics -- Watertight integrity -- Thermal limits -- Power supply -- Guidelines summary -- Installing communications and position-finding systems and radar -- Communications systems -- Position-finding systems -- Radar -- Installing depth sounders, weather systems, and autopilots -- Depth sounders -- Wind-and weather-monitoring instruments -- Autopilots -- Coaxial cable and antennas -- Coaxial cable basics -- Choosing coax for marine applications -- Installing coaxial cable -- VHF antennas -- SSB antennas -- Satellite television and radio antennas -- Cell phone antennas -- Radar antennas -- Onboard networks -- Network types -- Nmea 2000 -- Troubleshooting -- The future of onboard power distribution.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending 623.8503 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00213748
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH THIS STATE-OF-THE-ART GUIDE TO THE LATEST, MOST ADVANCED DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES

"Ed Sherman is one of America's great teachers and communicators of marine technology." -- Tim Murphy, former executive editor, Cruising World

Whether you are a marine electronics professional or a boatowner, Advanced Marine Electrics and Electronics Troubleshooting helps you understand the new, more powerful methods of troubleshooting marine electrical and electronic systems. A modern boat's sophisticated installations and networked electronics can stretch the traditional diagnostic methods, based on trouble lights and multimeters, past their useful limits. This book will show you how to:

Use microprocessor-based diagnostic tools and techniques from the automotive and communications sectors, adapted for boats for the first time Diagnose the most difficult AC and DC problems Protect communications and navigation electronics from interference and lightning Seek out and eliminate stray-current sources and galvanic corrosion

Includes index.

Marine troubleshooting the modern way -- Finding your way -- Electrics versus electronics -- Basic troubleshooting steps -- Testing batteries, charging systems, and starter circuits, and measuring voltage drop -- Catalysts for change -- Conductance battery tester -- Diagnostic meter -- Value and utility -- Testing continuity and tracing circuits -- Tone-generating circuit tracer -- Alphanumeric time domain reflectometer -- Value and utility -- Testing AC and grounding systems for polarity, voltage drop, impedance, and frequency -- The suretest circuit analyzer -- Value and utility -- Temperature monitoring as a diagnostic aid -- Infrared heat-sensing gun -- Other uses for temperature monitoring -- Value and utility -- Using power factor to determine energy efficiency -- Understanding power factor -- Improving your power factor -- Determining power consumption -- Using a power analyzer -- Value and utility -- Analyzing harmonic distortion -- Do you need a scope? -- AC loads -- Harmonic distortion -- Value and utility -- Using a laptop for intermittent problems -- Laptop link-ups -- Real-world examples -- Testing for electromagnetic and radio frequency interference -- Understanding electromagnetic interference -- Standards and regulations -- Common sources and victims of interference -- Tools of the trade -- Testing for residual current and isolating its sources -- AC leakage from appliances -- Using a clamp-on AC leak tester -- AC leakage from degraded insulation -- Using a megohmmeter -- Value and utility -- A basic corrosion survey -- Tools of the trade -- Underwater metal corrosion and protection basics -- Conducting a corrosion survey -- Grounding systems -- Lightning protection -- Grounding to minimize RFI effects -- Comparing ABYC and NMEA grounding standards -- Troubleshooting redux -- Marine electronics installation and troubleshooting -- Electronic equipment installation guidelines -- Ergonomics -- Watertight integrity -- Thermal limits -- Power supply -- Guidelines summary -- Installing communications and position-finding systems and radar -- Communications systems -- Position-finding systems -- Radar -- Installing depth sounders, weather systems, and autopilots -- Depth sounders -- Wind-and weather-monitoring instruments -- Autopilots -- Coaxial cable and antennas -- Coaxial cable basics -- Choosing coax for marine applications -- Installing coaxial cable -- VHF antennas -- SSB antennas -- Satellite television and radio antennas -- Cell phone antennas -- Radar antennas -- Onboard networks -- Network types -- Nmea 2000 -- Troubleshooting -- The future of onboard power distribution.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ed Sherman is the director of educational programming for the American Boat & Yacht Council (ABYC). His role has enabled him to help develop the marine industry's most highly regarded certifications for marine surveyors, service technicians and boat builders. Ed's training and certification programs are used by the U.S. Navy and U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards, as well as NOAA and Transport Canada to ensure that their small boat fleets are built and maintained to ABYC standards.Ed is a marine industry insider with forty years' experience. He is a past president of the Rhode Island Marine Trades Association and of the International Sailing Institute, a former electronics editor for Cruising World and Sailing World magazines, and the author of four highly regarded books on boat maintenance. Ed lives in Rhode Island with his wife and son.

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