Pleasure Boat Refrigeration Technical Services from Hell

[SV THIRD DAY]

Originally Posted by dohenyboy

Richard, you could put together a book and nowadays very easily self publish. Every cruiser would buy a copy, like Calder's book on boat systems.
You should seriously think about it..

He did!
Kollmann Marine

[AussieWayne]

Originally Posted by dohenyboy

Richard, you could put together a book and nowadays very easily self publish. Every cruiser would buy a copy, like Calder's book on boat systems.
You should seriously think about it.
.

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Yes would be most helpful to a whole lot of cruisers/boaties.

Thank you Richard for your efforts and sagely advice
AussieWayne

[AussieWayne]

Gee that was quick Richard, thanks. I will get me a copy of that there little book

[AussieWayne]

Just had a quick look at the Table of Contents and it seems all encompassing.
There is a Chapter for everything plus, plus!!
I wonder if there will be an eBook version Kindle etc which would be very convenient?
AussieWayne

[atoll]

Originally Posted by Richard Kollmann

Atoll, Without knowing what system you have it would only be just a guess for me to give good advice. There are a number of different ways your unit could be wired electrically, what compressor BD model do you have and who manufactured the system?

One test would be to disconnect fan black ground wire from module to see if compressor will then run.
And connect the two thermostat wires to gather again to see if compressor is running.
The Danfoss control module tells fan and or compressor when to run. Because some BD compressors are so quite when running best way to confirm it is running is if get warm in 20 minutes its running.

If compressor is not running there is an electrical problem unless someone has recently added refrigerant.
If compressor runs and there is little or no cooling there is a refrigerant problem, lack of or refrigeration flow restriction.

thanks Richard
I will investigate tommorow

[Bill_E]

This thread reminds me how helpful Mr. Kollman has been to me! It also reminds me that my control module on an old Danfoss is dead and I'll have to contact him again in a month or so when I'm back aboard to get a new one and get things running again.

Since he has written two books. Does anyone have a suggestion for which is most useful for the owner of an older unit? Probably about 25 yr old.

Thanks again!! Bill

[SV THIRD DAY]

Originally Posted by Bill_E

Since he has written two books. Does anyone have a suggestion for which is most useful for the owner of an older unit? Probably about 25 yr old.

Thanks again!! Bill

I think this one would be your best choice for an older unit:
Kollmann Marine

When we hire techs that assist in building our systems here in San Diego, we give them a copy of each of the books as assigned reading along with our Company Employee Handbook. I don't care if they read the lawyer driven Employee Handbook....but I pay them to read Richard's Books before any equipment build training begins.

[denverd0n]

Originally Posted by SV THIRD DAY

Almost everyone chants the customer service mantra...but form what I see of the industry its all talk with little actual follow through.

Unfortunately, that's true in almost every industry these days. Customer service seems to be an almost completely lost art. Which is sad, since, when you get right down to it, it really isn't all that complicated.

[Richard Kollmann]

In my first twenty years of writing five DIY books on boat refrigeration I could keep up with current changes in pleasure boat refrigeration. In the mid 1990s pleasure boat 12 volt refrigeration became popular do to advances in batteries and charging sources like wind, solar, water and high output alternators with smart voltage regulator. At the same time small 12 volt refrigeration became corrupted or debased by adding new elements such as water cooling and unnecessary electronic. Today it is not possible to cover each job shop assembled designs in a single book and company produced manuals do not describe particular problems with there designs.

When I realized I could no longer keep up with all boat refrigeration changes I opened in the year 2000 a web site to supply a method of revision services for each of my books. My boat revision Q and A forum through a word search can help guide anyone to thousands of boat refrigeration problems and solutions.

I still live up to my promise I made 30 years ago if you need an answer to a boat refrigeration question not fond in my book mail it to me or better yet post it on my Boat Refrigeration Forum.