E32 Ice box to fridge conversion
Also see related topic: Ice box/refridgerator conversion/battery capacity Date: April 13, 2003 I am contemplating putting an Adler Barbour in my E32. I am curious as to which model(s) some of you have used. Have you gone with the Cold Machine -- it is more powerful than some of the other models Waeco/Adler/Barbour now has. What evaporator(s) would you recommend? I am thinking of the larger models because they are able to cool a larger box and the Endeavour's ice box seems large to me. Has everyone put the compressor unit aft near the hot water tank, or have any of you installed it under the starboard settee? Would appreciate any other misc. advice. Date: April 15, 2003 Our refrigerator is an E-Z Kold cold plate. We mounted the plate "horizontally at the back 1/3 of the box and it serves as a shelf for ice cubes & frozen fish etc. The Ice box on the E-32 is 12 cu ft and it works great. Our compressor is mounted under the hot water tank and has water cooling as well as the std air cooling. Specify the DB50 large-size compressor for the big box. The whole unit costs $1199.00 from Cruising Solutions
Date: April 15, 2003 We have a AB in Danny's Fault, a 79 E32. We installed the compressor in the starboard saillocker on the shelf. All has worked well till last summer when the AB's electronic control unit quit. Needs to be replaced this year. The unit has always kept the box cold. One must be careful not to freeze to many things in the bottom of the box. Date: April 17, 2003 Hello, this is Erik, s/v Kuaihelani By the way,
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I installed a Fridgeboat refrig. Bought it at used boat supply store. The evaporator is large, vertical. Not my first choice when I was planning. No problem. I first plugged the drain hole in the ice box. I put a new bottom 13 inches below the lid. Under that bottom is insulation bought at Home Depot, building materials. Blue or pink large sheets of foam, 2 inches thick. Cut so it would fill the void. What is left of the (upper) space is insulated with another Home Depot product: silvery looking thin bubble material in rolls. The space is approximately 5.3 cubic feet. The space below the new bottom is 2 cubic feet. So, your ice box is close to 8 cubic feet. The compressor is behind the water heater on a shelf which I epoxied and glassed against the hull. The system has a keel cooler through the hull. The fridge works fine, the engine compartment is not too hot where the compressor is. I plan to install an oscillating fan in that area just for good measure.
We took the water heater out when we bought the boat. All heaters available
seem to big. Does anyone have any ideas?
