that is some serieus dedication for making a freezer! Great job!

Hi Nesa & Oliver great job ! More info on the new electronic compressor and its controller would be a great help as I am planning to refit my freezer on my Amel 53. Keep well & happy sailing .Nicolas

Well done and the parts that will never be seen again were beautifully done. A detailed personality like Steve Jobs would be very happy with that!

@svvelanautica2374

4 жыл бұрын

ha ha, yes you are right, but you see the result everytime you open the freezer. Its ice cold -19 drgeree Celsius even in the tropics. I installed a data logger to it and found out that the system has operating times of 58% per day in the tropics. That is a very good result, most units work 100% and get never cold.. -Oliver-

Fantastic. Beautiful job. You have many skills Oliver

Brilliant, thanks for sharing! This is my next job!

Very cool (hahaha)! Nice job, Nesa and Oliver. I'm looking into replacing the fridge on my Pearson 35 and while I've custom built some refrigeration units and coolers, I've never done it on a sailboat.

love it :) german engineering vs french engineering ..... 1-0 to germany :) after all Amel yachts is my favs.

Great job. You realized that Amel failed to use vapor-proof materials and did not use closed-cell foam or the better polyurethane foam board. Who makes this board and where did you get it? The next job will be to insulate your refrigerator with this board. Then you can insulate the ceilings with an insulation board to seriously reduce your A/C demand. Remember to put the vapor barrier on the hot side. Of course, you know this already. We spend 500, 000 euros on a 2007 boat with all of these built-in flaws.

Awesome Job!!! We have an RV with a tiny freeze we frequent were getting ice build up. I think I will try your magnet idea ad a closure.

Excellent workmanship, congratulations!

This dude uses gloves as if fingers were a suggestion. Good video.

Hi, well done project using PIV you are the first I am aware of. I have a question though.. Why did you not do all the thickness with piv but you added also normal PU panels? and how are you sure there will be non condensation in the middle between the Piv panels and the others PU panels? V.

Hi Nesa & Oliver Very nice job !could you give us more detail of the new compressor unit and it’s new electronic controller ?I have almost the same boat as you(Amel 53) and looking to do the same job with my freezer .Cheers Happy sailing .Nicolas

Very thorough job Oliver! That's a lot of work. Where did you get the vacuum panels from (and I am guessing you had to have them make them to your custom sizes). Do you still have the plans/sizes? I will be doing the same thing when I get my 54 in the next month or two.

@svvelanautica2374

4 жыл бұрын

Hello, we got the panels here: www.vaku-isotherm.de/en/produkte/kuehlraumbau-641824 please read also the other comments and my answers. fair winds -Oliver-

Thanks for the indepth video! Do you have a link for where you purchased the vip from?

Looks like a fantastic result, Where did you get those foam panels from?

@svvelanautica2374

4 жыл бұрын

Hello, These pannels are no foam pannels, they contain a vacuumised mineral filling. The isolation value is certified for professional cooling facility build. We got these vacuum panels here: www.vaku-isotherm.de/en/produkte/kuehlraumbau-641824 We do not have any relation to this company. We where refered to this product by professional cool room builders when we asked for the best we could do with our limited space for isolation and the requirement of tropical outside temperatures. -Oliver-

Great project ! , up date ???

love the build. if i may ask, how much did the vip panels cost?

@svvelanautica2374

4 жыл бұрын

That was about 400 Euros, without fright, we drove there ourself to pick them up. then wraped them in styrofoam in a plywook box and shipped them to Portugal where the boat was in the shipyard. -Oliver-

15:02 evaporator

Great job, but you had better get those cuts and scratches seen too

Habt Ihr wenigstens auch Kielkühler für die Kompressoren installiert? Die Kühlleistung geht dann beachtlich nach oben. Haben wir auf unserer 54er auch gemacht.

@svvelanautica2374

4 жыл бұрын

Down below in english. Hallo Andre, Nein wir haben auf den Kielkühler verzichtet. Ich hatte zwei Stück an meinem alten Schiff und war damit nicht zufrieden. Wenn wir in tropischen Lagunen lagen funktionierten sie nicht weil der Fluss des warem Wassers nicht ausreichte. Wir haben statt dessen unsere aktive Wasserkühlung, der Kompressoren, auf eine hocheffektive brushless Pumpe umgestellt und ich habe eine neue optimierte Steuerung eingebaut. Die Pumpe benötigt nur 1A in den Tropen um beide Geräte zu kühlen und regelt sich automatisch herunter wenn die Wassertemperaturen geringer sind. Dank der starken Isolierung schaltet sich Die Kühlanlage trotz tropischen Temperature ab und fährt mit ca. 70 - 80% Einschaltdauer. In kalten Temperaturen sind die Einschaltzeiten natürlich viel geringer. Vor dem Umbau lief die Kühlanlage ständig. Hello Andre, No we did without the keel cooler. I had two on my old ship and was not happy with it. If we were in tropical lagoons, they would not work because the flow of warm water was insufficient. Instead, we switched our active water cooling of the compressors, to a highly effective brushless pump and I installed a new, optimized control. The pump only needs 1A in the tropics to cool both devices and regulates itself automatically when the water temperatures are lower. Thanks to the strong insulation, the cooling system switches off despite the tropical temperature and runs with a 70 - 80% duty cycle. In cold temperatures, the switch-on times are of course much shorter. The cooling system was running continuously before the conversion. -Oliver-

Very Nice ! What is de brand name off this product ? Where can I order it ?

How much electricity does that use a day?

hes is doing a nice job ,but old fashioned way with that evaporate plate .......the stainless insert ,it should be a whole tank with the copper pipe inside ,filled with a glycol mixture .longest hold over ,,compressor driven of the engine .... minus 20 no problem ..one hr run max ,,,as you charge batteries in same time .. regards marcel newzealand

@ElinesaC

4 жыл бұрын

Marcel Eisenring Hi Marcel Thank you for your comments... Since we changed to Lithium Battery (see our vedio for that: Vela Nautica Goes Lithium) we don’t run our engine much. In our case it was best to improve the insulation to its max and keep the old compressor system. We run all small consumers on battery or inverter...Waves from Sailing Vessel Vela Nautica😘

@Nabilasailing

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Marcel. Sounds very interesting. Can you provide me more information about this system? I'm planning to build a new little freezer. Thanks

@marceleisenring3857

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nabilasailing hi ocean air in nz make them ..Google web page.i made them be 4 .now retired Message me on fb

@marceleisenring3857

4 жыл бұрын

@@ElinesaC hi I was building the fridge freezer for many years ..refit ma y overseas boats ...seen some crap 2 ..running danvfos and alder barber systems ....evaperirive. plates.....biggest one is freedom 110 ft ..myself build 65 ft s boat ..after 20 od years still going .never broken down

@svvelanautica2374

4 жыл бұрын

@@marceleisenring3857 Our goal was to improove the insulation up to a tropical usefullness with maximum energy conservation. We had this given space as location for the freezer and did not like to waste space for bulky insulation. We tested our setup, filled 20 liters of ice in it, switched the compressor off and had 3 days later, without any additional cooling, still 10 liters of ice and 10 liters of icewater. The outside temperatures, at that time, had been 28 degrees Celsius. This kind of insulation is used for medical transportation without cooling, it keeps the medications cool for 96 hours. I know and repaired these glycol tanks before, but in our situation there is no need to bind compressor times to charging times, we do not need to charge every day, sometimes we do not charge for 5 days in a row. We can operate the compressor whenever needed. Only with an advanced insulation you don´t need to operate the compressor much. regards Oliver

Putting it deep inside "[...] that's what i like to do [...]" "oooh ja"

you call condenser the evaporator :) also the insulation is not optimal :( the aluminum foil on the pannels will bridge with the outside.... :(

@svvelanautica2374

4 жыл бұрын

Hello, We are now testing the freezer in the tropics and are very satisfied. With the limited space for isolation available, the vacuum insulation panels are the best we could do and are superior to conventional insulation panels by a factor of 4 to 5. This insulation value is certified. We did a test and filled the freezer with 30 liters of ice cubes, then switched off the cooling and still had 50% ice cubes after 3 days without cooling. So the bridging factor of the aluminum foil on the edges can not be very high, especially since the foam insulation on the outside is again in the offset. -Oliver-