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Originally Posted by ColdEh Marine
Hi zboss.
How about sharing what the unit told you . Maybe daily amp hours and a few specs on your box and your refrigeration system brand and model , size of your plate and so on . Always good to compare .
Regards John
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We have an evaporator spill over system that uses a Frigoboat
keel cooler, new last year. Obviously, evap is in the
freezer area. About a total of 7 to 8 square feet combined fridge/freezer. Only about 2 inches of 27 year old
insulation with 2 layers of pink board added to the bottom. Lid is covered on the inside with reflectex.
The fan and thermocouple are in the
freezer compartment even though Stainless Lobster recommended to put it in the fridge area. Its been working fine.
We have used about 35-45 Ah a day in our southern
florida winter and maybe 50-60 Ah in our non-air-conditioned
boat during August in
Annapolis. On very rare summer occassions, we may have seen 80 Ah used but I think that is because the top of the cooler not being completely sealed. I estimate the majority of the power savings was achieved through the new
keel cooler plus the extra
insulation at the bottom and not the SL - maybe 90%. However, maybe 10% energy savings is because of the stainless lobster. We were previously using 120 Ah a day in summer and 80 Ah in
winter.
Is it any better than a Carel thermostat? I can't say since we have never had one but I CAN say that its nice to have a system that shows
history and is easy to see what is happening at a glance. The questions I asked got answered very quickly, which I consider a big plus. The
installation is super easy... once I got it tuned in, we have not had to touch it except one instance of a glitch when it seemed to stop working correctly. We reset it back to factory settings then reapplied our required settings and its been fine for months.