ITR Hurricane H1

The Hurricane H1 by ITR (International Thermal Research) is problematic in that it nearly burnt a motor yacht down twice in under 4 years time. After the first melt down, the unit was sent in to ITR for repairs and returned for reinstallation. However, less than 2 years passed and the unit repeated the melt down.

ITR, when confronted with the damages caused by their product malfunctioning, would not budge in helping in the glass, hull and paint damage repairs. The Hurricane H1 is known for malfunctioning and the unit discontinued. If I were ITR representing a flawed design, I would have sold a new H2 design for 50% cost, especially to a dealer, which the company I work for, is.

As you can see in the photo, the ITR Hurricane unit had 2,571 hours, which at least 25% of that time was spent in the shop verifying stability after the first melt down. 2,571 hours over 6 years time is roughtly 1.2 hours use per day; that's not a lot of usage. I've seen ITR Hurricane H2's outlast the H1 by an immense amount of time. Why the company didn't feel that our melt down experience would ruin their reputation as we are a dealer, baffles me.

Notice the photo to the right. The thru-hull for the exhaust flange became so hot the second time, that the paint and fiberglass began to bubble and deform.

The unit would reach stack temperatures over 1200 degrees fahrenheit and remain burning until manually switched off. There were several flaws in the placement of the high temperature safety switches where the heat apparently didn't transfer correctly to the place of sensor pickup.