Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:49:55 -0700
Reply-To: neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From: neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Norcold DC0040
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sounds like an interesting read.
Results?
Well, I don't personally know this "Sullivan" fellow, but he has a
nice site, and what looks like a pretty KickA## van.
http://www.haywood-sullivan.com/vanagon/TDI/index.html
Didn't see any info other than a pic of 3163 refer, (as posted
earlier) but I'll bet he's active on one of them thar' diesel lists.
On 7/3/07, Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/2007 12:10 PM neil wrote:
>
> > Good questions.
> >
> > Yah I guess so. LP useage would mean it's an asorption refer. Can't
> > imagine just how inefficient it would be to run a compressor off of
> > LP!
> >
> > ( LP burns to heat a boiler, the steam is used to drive an engine
> > which would turn the compressor)
>
> Exactly. I proposed the same thing a couple months ago. A separate
> trailer with a big iron and brass boiler, great dripping rubber hoses
> bringing live steam into a compressor -- or a steam-powered generator. A
> steam radiator under the bench seat. Nineteenth-century technology -- today!
>
>
> > IF the 3163 was designed after the 182, then one could safely assume
> > that Norcold would have studied the Dometic and learned from Dometics
> > "mistakes".
>
> Yeah maybe so. A refrigeration engineer would know this stuff, I reckon.
> Anyone know such a person?
>
> Ammonia-water absorption refrigeration has been around for a long time.
> Used during America's Civil War. So it's not new tech. I dunno how much
> more refinement has occurred in the last 50 years or so, but I bet that
> if the Dometic is not as good a refrigerator as the ammonia-water cycle
> is capable of, it's due to manufacturing or budgetary constraints, not
> lack of knowledge about to make an ammonia-water absorption refrigerator.
>
> We need test results!
>
> * BTW, Theroux's "Mosquito Coast" is about a fellow who takes his family
> to the Mosquito Coast of the Honduras and builds a large ammonia-based
> ice making machine.
>
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
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