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hi

jeff cote here with votingtechtalk.com

uh we've got a question from a fellow

boater

and uh it's actually a good one because

it hap it's relevant to

all of us that have gasoline powered

engines

so the boater asks jeff i hear you

talking about not putting certain

electronics

in engine rooms and maybe you could

answer this question in a video

i have an outboard engine but my fuel

lines travel through the same

compartment as my batteries

are stored in is this a concern i

changed my fuel lines out every couple

years for safety reasons your thoughts

okay well that's a really good question

and to be honest there's a lot of

bravado with

gasoline engines by way too many boaters

and technicians

when we come aboard a boat that was

built or recently built and it has

gasoline either outboards or gasoline

engines

i can tell you the builders worry a lot

about making sure that that space is

completely

ignition protected and safe

and it's not something that any builder

takes slightly because

why basically it's our safety

right it's not impossible

for a sort of fitting on

a pipe to leak or

anywhere on a gasoline circuit right

where the fuel filters are whatever it

may be or on the engine itself to

actually have a leak of gasoline and the

challenge is when gasoline leaks as we

know

it easily becomes gasoline vapors

and if ever there's a spark in that

engine room

it's going to be a memorable moment in

your life

so we're trying to avoid that as much as

possible so first thing is to make sure

that all devices that go in a gasoline

engine room of course

can only be ignition protected and

that's a big you gotta really focus on

that second

you also have to make sure that you

don't compromise

the vapor-proofness of

the engine compartment in this case it's

an outboard but in general

i've seen a lot of boats that have

gasoline engines where people are

literally drilling holes

from the cabin space and the

engine room and they're literally just

running wires and you can literally see

through those holes

and what has happened sadly is that

the someone at one point has

the vapor proofness i don't know if

that's a word

of the gasoline engine room and so what

you want to do as a boat owner is you

want to make sure that under no

circumstances imagine

you would be literally pressurizing your

gasoline engine room

under no circumstances can any air

whatsoever ever leak and go into your

cabin space

so that's the first thing now for some

of us that have outboards

i'm not too sure because i'm not a

mechanic i'm more of an electrician

about what the codes are with regards to

fuel lines it's not my world there's

people that worry about that

but i can certainly tell you that we as

much as possible avoid

installing any non-ignition or

electrical wires

near fuel lines so the fuel line has to

be considered

absolutely untouchable because as we

know sometimes electrical

wires can short and if that ever shorted

which would be

a big you know sort of problem it could

be exasperated

big word and literally cause your fuel

line

to also melt and then cause a bigger

explosion so

if you've got gasoline fuel lines that

are running through your boat

make sure that yeah you have no shave on

them of course

and then also that electrical equipment

near those lines

are ignition protected and that no

electrical wiring

ever runs parallel to those gasoline

lines

because again it's possible for an

electrical wire

to melt under overuse over current and

even though the fuse could have blown it

might not

i've seen fuse that should blow that

don't so i would

like this boater take a lot of caution

and worry

and that worrying is good because when

you're on the water then you don't have

to so you worry up front

so you don't have to worry later so just

be really careful

i know it's not super clear my

instructions it's just sort of

whatever the builder did is generally

done right and then it's you worry about

everything that's been done after market

people that are willing to take chances

that they shouldn't

so that's a great question

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