"DSK" wrote in message

Most Trouble free refrigeration?

I am assembling a refrigeration system and am interested in what other
folks have & have not found troublesome.

Thanks in advance.

I've always felt engine-driven refrigeration is superior, but our boat came
with a 12V Adler-Barber. Bottom line: our friends with engine-driven
compressors have had numerous problems, while we have had absolutely none.
The 12V compressor is quiet to the point of only hearing it when it runs at
night and I'm wide awake listening to the carp roll and thump against the
boat. Our friends have ****ed off others in quiet anchorages with their
nightly fridge recharge (engine run).

Strictly anecdotal, and not an endorsement of DC refrigeration.

Max

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message news:d2scnh$di2

Duh! Assembling it for use where? Don't you think that very important
piece of
info should be included if you expect to get any reasonable answers?

Why is it so many people these days are too stupid to know how to ask a
simple
question?

CN

Hi, Bobsprit.

Max

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:10:20 -0400, DSK wrote
this crap:

Most Trouble free refrigeration?

I am assembling a refrigeration system and am interested in what other
folks have & have not found troublesome.


Why should anyone give advice to a liar such as you?






This post is 100% free of steroids

Joe wrote:
Even a 12 V electric compressor can be noisy.

Depends on what you call "noisy." We just put in a new 12V fridge. You
can hear it running if you stand next to it... you can hear the
thermostat click... and that's about it.


... With just a few feet of
plumbing you can have a more proffessional set up and better access to
your compressor in the engine room.


If you're talking about engine driven, it's too cumbersome and only
works when underway. And the compressor will run at all kinds of RPM
depending on everything except what the refrigeration system needs.
Really inefficient, plus you have refrigerant lines draped all over the
engine room. I'm not seriously considering engine driven refrigeration.

It would make more sense to have a 120VAC 3-phase diesel genset driving
a compressor, that would be smaller, quieter, more efficient, more
flexible with regard to layout, and you could tie in more efficient
3-phase appliances. Hard to find off-the-shelf stuff though, and it'd be
a lot more expensive (unless you could scrounge most of the parts).



Id go with the stainless steel. Make it a double walled 6" thick min.
and inject expandable foam in it. Will last forever.

We don't have the cubic for that thick insulation, especially not with a
double walled SS box. And pour-in foam has a poor R value, about 3 or 4
IIRC. A poor match economically. If I was going to spend that kind of
money I'd get the whole thing put under a vacuum, maybe put in a little
dedicated vacuum maintainer pump. It'd be one big Thermos!



Front or top access?


Top. It's going under the dinette settee. With 4" insulation we can get
a smidge over 4 cu ft, although it has to be irregularly shaped.

DSK

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:: other folks have & have not found troublesome.
::
:: Thanks in advance.
::
:: Doug King

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Maxprop wrote:
I've always felt engine-driven refrigeration is superior

Any reason why? I feel that it's superior if one assumes 1960s level of
technology.


... but our boat came
with a 12V Adler-Barber. Bottom line: our friends with engine-driven
compressors have had numerous problems, while we have had absolutely none.
The 12V compressor is quiet to the point of only hearing it when it runs at
night and I'm wide awake listening to the carp roll and thump against the
boat. Our friends have ****ed off others in quiet anchorages with their
nightly fridge recharge (engine run).

Strictly anecdotal, and not an endorsement of DC refrigeration.


Hmm, it sure sounded like one. Thanks a lot for the info... I have
already spec'd & priced a system using Adler-Barbour components and that
is certainly a strong contender.

Thank you again-

DSK