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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:06:14 GMT, wrote:

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If it was just beer I'd only have to fool with an ice chest. But it's beer
plus everything else...including frozen food that I'd like to keep as well
frozen as possible.

Or you've got a dual voltage refrigerator and the genset is running to recharge
your house bank?

If I can get the frig to stay cold longer, I can greatly cut down on the
time that the generator has to run, the number of times it has to be started
and stopped, the amount of gas it uses, the number of times it has to be
re-fuled, and how much time I have to spend hearing it run.

I'm confused. If you're connected to shore power, why would your generator ever
have to kick on? Do you not have some sort of battery tender?

I agree with the suggestions regarding "blue ice" or some equivalent; a
refrigerator is just a heat exchanging device, and allowing some heat exchange
to occur *inside* the box (using blue ice) will help offset the exchange from
inside the box to the outside.

Joe Parsons