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re: charge fridge(with ice) not batteries?
23 jun 2004
rtrolll wrote:
>i was wondering if any benefit could be had if during the day a fridge/freezer
>was to run full out, bypassing regular thermostat, and having it make as much
>ice as possible while the sun was shining on pv panels.
sure. yesterday, john wiles did a pv nec code workshop in phila, and
he showed a slide of a commercially-available fridge that worked that
way, with no batteries, just pvs and ice. some sailboat fridges have
cold plates that only store coolth when the engine is running.
nick
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