The components of the control system for both the Sea Strainer alarm and the Exhaust Alert are remarkably simple. There's just the probe(s), a control box, a display unit and an optional siren.

The control box can receive up to three probes in any combination and send out to two display units. This means for example we can monitor the raw water cooling flow, and the exhaust injection temperatures of the main engine and a generator set, whilst watching over the system with display units in the wheel house and the fly bridge.

The 12V 24V power supply to the control box must pass through the engine's ignition circuit to ensure that the Sea Strainer Alarm and the Exhaust Alert are guarding the system at all times when the engines are running.

The Display Unit is usually located by the helm position, and rather like an engines 'Oil Pressure Alarm' the Display unit self-tests when the engine is first turned on. If the Display Unit isn't to one's liking then it is possible to build the display warning lights into the existing engine dash board, making one's helm console less cluttered. For this, one needs the special 'OEM Junction Box' and the customer supplies their own lights for the engine dash board.

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