New WAECO ADLER BARBOUR

[Guts1236]

I will be removing my norcold 110 V/12 V icebox conversion.. The should be called a no cold, they can be purchased for $600 to $700 but you can't get parts for them and when it goes out you just end up buying a whole new unit so I'm told.

I will be replacing it with a Waeco Adler Barbour CU-100 compressor and a VD-152 large evaporator coil with three ice cube trays. I'm going to start this project the middle of next week and will be taking pictures as I go along. The new compressor is 12 V only, and not combination 110 V/12 V like the norcold (SP) unit. Have any of you done this with these units? If you have any advice or feedback I would appreciate it [FONT=&quot]WAECO ADLER BARBOUR[/FONT]
CU100 and VD152

Kim

 

[Guts1236]

[FONT=&quot]WAECO ADLER BARBOUR[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]ColdMachine VD-152 Large Vertical Evaporator[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Mfg # 755520000 [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]WAECO ADLER BARBOUR[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]CU-100 Air-Cooled ColdMachine Compressor[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Mfg # 755400000 [/FONT]

 

[dj2210]

I removed the 30 yr old non-working cold machine and replaced with a Isotherm. The original compressor was located in the aft cockpit locker. The new one I installed on the shelf in the port cockpit locker right behind the coldbox. I took out the drawers and frame to access the area behind the coldbox. It was straight forward install. I located the evaporator in the little space on the starboard side of the coldbox in a vertical position. Your evaporator looks bigger than mine. I tried to provide as much fridge space (Beer) as possible, though its a little hard to access the freezer. It works great and is very quiet.

 

[Guts1236]

dj2210

Thank you for your reply. Right now the compressor sits in the sail locker on that little shelf right behind the icebox as you described. I plan on replacing the new compressor in the same spot. The evaporator coil would not fit anywhere besides the area that you described and I made a aluminum bracket that is going to hang from the underneath side of the icebox. It's a large piece of aluminum angle, that I have attached a flat piece of aluminum to mount the evaporator.

I will take some pictures, after I get it painted up. I will probably sped today removing things from a sail locker and the old compressor and evaporator coil. Hopefully tomorrow I will start installing the unit itself

 

[Guts1236]

Install finish but have not fired it off yet

 

[Bob S]

nice Job!

 

[Guts1236]

nice Job!

Thanks Bob

I'm going down tomorrow to clean the boat and get it ready for a weekend of sailing. I'll keep the group informed via this thread on which temperatures I am reaching, and thermostat settings.

Kim

The white aluminum plate that the evaporator is connected to. I am hoping that it is going to be a transmitter of cold for the icebox. The evaporator is made to mount to the side of the box with 1 inch standoffs for air circulation. As you can see from previous pictures I have mounted it on aluminum a 90° aluminum angle painted white. What isn't clear in the pictures is how I mounted it to the top of the icebox.Which leads about 4± inches behind it, away from the walls of the icebox. I am hoping that this is going to lead to better circulation of the air in the icebox. I'm afraid that I might have just created a freezer instead of a icebox conversion. I will know better after this weekend. I think I'll put some warm soda cans in their when I fire it off just to see how long it takes them to get cold. I'm not going to try to make 36 ice cubes the first time I fire it off. But I will eventually

 

[nashuasteve]

nice Job!

I have been trying to fugure out a way to do this upgrade. I am glad you shared how you did it and will be doing mine this wnter, thanks Again

 

[Guts1236]

I have been trying to fugure out a way to do this upgrade. I am glad you shared how you did it and will be doing mine this wnter, thanks Again

I will be giving periodical updates after I have done some insulating on the lids. The thermostat goes from 0 to 7 and I am currently running it on approximately 3. One thing that I have noticed is the countertop getting very cold. Insulation may be required behind the aluminum angle iron shown in the picture above the top half of the icebox has no insulation whatsoever. Which results in a cold sweating counter top. I believe I'm going to have to do some insulation on the underneath side of the ice chest. One of the requirements for the system was a 300 amp hour battery or that equivalent. My house battery a 4 D and a group 27 total 280 Ah it seems to be working fine and my battery charger at the dock is keeping the batteries up. More to come on the performance and things that I might have done a little different, later in other posts. One thing I might have done is use a VD150 evaporator instead of a VD152 granted the 152 gives me 12 more ice cubes or a larger compartment either way you want look at it.

Kim