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Fridge ventilation
The ventilation in the fridge compressor compartment is not enough to
remove the heath the compressor generates. As a first stage to improve
it we drilled some holes in the cover board inside the locker where you
access the compressor. We can't really tell how much the holes ventilate
the compressor box but you can feel the heat coming out. This solution
requires that you keep the lockers door open most of the time. We
haven't yet decided if we are going to drill couple of holes on the
locker door... |
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1. Remove the cover
and measure the height and width of the hole or the space between the
frame and the screw holes in order to decide where to put the first row of
holes. |
 2. Drill as many holes you think is necessary. We used 20 mm drill for the holes and 20 mm between each hole to create a zigzag pattern. |
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3. The lid back in place. We will probably drill more holes later on in order to improve the ventilation just to be sure that it really will help. |
 4. The sparepart number for the lid/cover. |
| 2017-10-15 Improving the ventilation on the lid to the fridge compressor. | |
 4. We finally got time/remembered to imrpove the ventilation for the fridge and drilled few more 20 mm holes on the lid. |
 6. The final result. The ventilation improved quite a lot but still not as much as we had hoped. please continue to read and you learn what was wrong. |
| 2018 March - We found a ventilation pipe under the saloon seats | |
| In March 2018 we decided to start the isolation of all heating/ventilation pipes from our Ebersprecher so we would have a more efficient flow of hot air in the front cabin. Whilst we were filming and cutting open the seating benches in the saloon (see page Heat pipe isolation) we noticed that there was something strange going on from the refridgerator compressor. Below you can read more about this. | |
5. When trying to film the refridgerator compresor we saw that there was
this big white and bendt wrinkled tube lying next to the compressor but
did not understand what it was. |
6.When we cut open the bench in the saloon an looked
inside we found the end of the white pipe taped to the wall. We
undestood directly that it was not the most effective ventilation if the pipe was bent. |
7. We started by removing the tape and pulled the pipe a bit more out of the
hole. |
 8. Close up of the ventilation pipe. You can see here that the pipe is bendt on the other side. |
9. When we continued to pull the out the pipe we notidced that there was a quite
lot of it on the other side but now at least the airflow was not blocked
anymore. We cut the end of the pipe so it would be a little bit nicer
and then we left it there as it was hoping that it would get colder air
into the compressor if it was in the contact with the hull. |
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