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Canal boat
16 February 2016, 07:31,
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RE: Canal boat
Nemesis,

This thread got me thinking about fridge power consumption.

One of these or similar might be worth considering:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Waeco-CRP40-12...1608wt_904

Specification states its 40w and has a 23% duty cycle at ambient temp of 25C. I'm guessing that on your boat 25c would be considered tropical?

Anyway, power consumption is in the order of 220Watt-hours per day.

This would make it viable to power it from a 500w PV array ( assuming mid-winter output of 10% for 5 hours per day)

The snag is that outlay cost of around £1000 will take 10 years to recover against your existing Calor gas usage.
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Canal boat - by Nemesis - 4 January 2016, 03:30
RE: Canal boat - by NorthernRaider - 4 January 2016, 09:47
RE: Canal boat - by Sunna - 4 January 2016, 12:27
RE: Canal boat - by Midnitemo - 4 January 2016, 14:45
RE: Canal boat - by Skean Dhude - 4 January 2016, 14:54
RE: Canal boat - by bigpaul - 4 January 2016, 16:39
RE: Canal boat - by Sunna - 4 January 2016, 16:54
RE: Canal boat - by Sunna - 4 January 2016, 16:57
RE: Canal boat - by Midnitemo - 4 January 2016, 17:36
RE: Canal boat - by Straight Shooter - 4 January 2016, 17:41
RE: Canal boat - by bigpaul - 4 January 2016, 18:01
RE: Canal boat - by Steve - 4 January 2016, 19:52
RE: Canal boat - by bigpaul - 5 January 2016, 10:18
RE: Canal boat - by Nemesis - 4 January 2016, 21:04
RE: Canal boat - by Nemesis - 12 January 2016, 01:58
RE: Canal boat - by Nemesis - 12 January 2016, 02:26
RE: Canal boat - by Nemesis - 12 January 2016, 02:56
RE: Canal boat - by Lightspeed - 12 January 2016, 12:57
RE: Canal boat - by Nemesis - 12 January 2016, 18:35
RE: Canal boat - by Sunna - 24 January 2016, 02:56
RE: Canal boat - by Nemesis - 16 February 2016, 00:10
RE: Canal boat - by Lightspeed - 16 February 2016, 07:31
RE: Canal boat - by Ranger - 17 February 2016, 13:43
RE: Canal boat - by Nemesis - 25 April 2016, 20:57

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