[Public-List] Refridgeration

[Gordon Laco]

Hello friends, 

Do any of you have opinions or experience with this piece of kit? 

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Gord Laco
#426 Surprise




> On Aug 11, 2018, at 9:32 PM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi there...   it’s only two days if there’s hardly any ice; which is quite remarkable    We get four days and more with a normal amount of ice.   We have very good insulation; and do not have the chest type ice box    We have 6” blue foam against the engine box plus foil to reflect radiant heat. 4” elsewhere. The lids have very good seals.  
> 
> We’ve got a setup that’s about as good as an ice box can be... just wondering about no ice; or rather just enough to ‘coast’ between occasions when we’d run the fridge plant.  
> 
> Well I’ll think about it over the winter.  We’re sailing in the morning so nothing is going to get done before we go...
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gord
> #426 Surprise 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 11, 2018, at 7:37 PM, Michael Grosh via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 2 days seems like a short amount of time. I would suspect a shortcoming in
>> insulation on your factory issue chest type cooler liner boat. I retro
>> fitted a chest type (using all.available space) with layers of aluminum
>> foil (stops infra red, so they say, especially between engine compartment).
>> It made for a large space to work with, so I have at least 4" foam all
>> around. I get 6 days of ice easily Ches. Bay summers, but I also use deep
>> freeze ice that's really cold to start with.
>> I would do the easy first, probe for insulation, cans of spray foam in any
>> found voids. Careful, though, the foam expands with a lot of force. It's a
>> small diameter tube on the cans that can be inserted in inspection holes.
>> Longer hose can be had from the hardware store-it'll press fit on the can
>> which gives flexibility jiggling around any voids. Glue foil outside the
>> chest in engine compartment for good measure.
>> I've liked the idea of belt driven refrigeration. Systems are pricey
>> though, and probably not justifiable for how I use the Alberg. I have a
>> home made design floating around someplace, the refrigeration cycle is
>> pretty basic really. Thedevil is in the details.
>> Michael Grosh
>> #220
>> The insulation i found on my preliner boat was just plain awful. A few
>> pieces of fiberglass home insulation, which had become water saturated. MG
>> 
>> On Aug 11, 2018 5:30 PM, "Gordon Laco via Public-List" <
>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello gang -
>> 
>> So we’re back at home after provisioning the boat for tomorrow’s departure…
>> and as I do every year, I’m wondering if I should install refrigeration
>> some day.
>> 
>> It would be nice to carry fresh meats longer than four days without having
>> to plan to ice up again… on the other hand it’s nice not to have to worry
>> about battery capacity…. on the other hand the reality of cruising on our
>> coast is that it’s really nice to stooge up the inside channels on our
>> Georgian Bay coast, and that usually entails at least a couple of hours of
>> motoring every day, often more.
>> 
>> If I put refrigeration in, and only used it when the engine was running,
>> and still put say two blocks of ice in the box, surely the refrigeration
>> would make the blocks last forever, effectively refreezing them each day
>> when motoring.  If we didn’t motor, two blocks would last two days…
>> 
>> Anyone else grappled with this?  Before the suggestions come in: sorry, I
>> would never put an array of solar panels on SURPRISE.
>> 
>> Gord Laco
>> #426 Surprise
>> 
>> 
>> 
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