[C320-list] Fridge compressor replacement

[Ken Geiger]

 Hi Jack do you remember which evaporator you paired the below mentioned unit to?
ThanksKen
Northern Dream #765 2000
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Brennan <jackbrennan at bellsouth.net>
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 15, 2020 10:49 am
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Fridge compressor replacement

Hi Graeme:

I bought this one ( https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?id=1599545 ), which is billed as good for as large as 15 cubic feet, and it works fine. I can seal off a section near the evaporator and get 31 degrees F, just enough to keep things frozen, and the rest of the compartment in the mid 30s.

Keep in mind that this is in western Florida, where our winter temperatures are about the same as your summer highs. Right now, we’re experiencing highs of 95 degrees F with 90 percent humidity, and the Cold Machine works just fine.

Jack Brennan
Sonas, 1998 Catalina 320 
Tierra Verde, Fl.
Dolphin Cruising Club of Florida



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From: Graeme Clark
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 10:37 AM
To: C320-List at catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Fridge compressor replacement

Thanks Jack
I’ve not bought it yet but Coldmachines (sold under Waeco brand in UK) aren’t readily available for our size fridge (5.8 cu ft). I’ll ask around a bit more
Graeme

Sent from my phone. Excuse typos! 

> On 15 Jul 2020, at 14:09, Jack Brennan <jackbrennan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Graeme:
> 
> I sounds like you’ve already bought the replacement unit but, just in case, the Adler/Barbour Cold Machine comes with about 12 feet of tubing. I had to coil it in the rear port locker.
> 
> Jack Brennan
> Sonas, 1998 Catalina 320
> Tierra Verde, Fl.
> Dolphin Cruising Club of Tampa Bay
> 
> 
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> 
> From: Graeme Clark
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 8:38 AM
> To: C320-List at catalina320.com
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Fridge compressor replacement
> 
> Quick update
> 
> I’ve removed the old unit and the evaporator plate from the cool box along with the tubing
> 
> The way mine was set up, the tubing exited into the aft port locker, routed under the shelf that the compressor sits on and then comes up through a hole in that shelf at the aft end to return back forward to connect to the compressor
> 
> My guess is that this made for easier connections as the big self seal couplings need space around them for a wrench
> 
> Long story short is that from the exit hole in the cool box that takes 10ft of piping. If I could make the connection to the compressor at the forward end that might save 2ft but no way will I do it with the standard 6ft pipe length, especially as some of that will be used within the cool box between the evaporator plate and the exit hole in the wall!
> 
> So either I buy an extension tube or I site the compressor somewhere else
> 
> On the 320 I used to have fractional ownership of, that had already been done and the compressor was near where the battery charger is sited above the small cupboard/stowage box that is accessed to rear of cool box
> 
> Of course there’s potential for heat build up there but I think it would be easy enough to repurpose the engine blower to suck air from that locker (the two are interconnected)
> 
> Difficult choices!
> 
> Graeme
> #366
> 1996 
> 
> Sent from my phone. Excuse typos! 
> 
>