Very interesting that a wet towel improved the performance! Awesome tip! thank youGlobal warming is making it hot. Been crazy (Africa) hot for days. I have no AC. Freezer was not keeping cold. So I put a wet towel over it. Works amazingly well.
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Wow cool idea! That makes sense to me.. very wise approach if I may say.What if there was a way to wick that melting ice water up to the lid where it could evaporate, cooling the cooler even more?
I think there are materials that will "wick" up the water with no power.Using a small DC pump to move the water out of the box to somehow cool down the fridge/freezer‘s hot condenser coil could improve overall performance.
Little bleach every once in a while & it should be good.One thing to be cautious about is minerals and stuff in the water building up on a surface and causing some problem over long period of time. And living creatures growing in it
Why they say suck dont blow. Wont have to look ;-PJust blew a decade of dust off my condenser. Looked like a towel of nasty.
people miss this constantly. the biggest issues I have with the compressor based equipment I work with is failure to clean the condenser. the ships will come back with a 1" thick layer of fuzz and gunk after only 3 or 4months at sea. then the supply officer or the FSO will ask me why are your machines always breaking/not cooling/shutting down when we are underway.... I show the the training records I make their people sign saying that they know they have to visually inspect the condenser filter once a week and clean it once a month regardless of what it looks like...then I show them their units condenser with a 1" thick layer of crap on it and I politely say... and you were saying?Just blew a decade of dust off my condenser. Looked like a towel of nasty.
even just as a "booster" during hot water it has some interesting advantages.A couple channels up the hing side of the wicking material. Some sort of mat on top that will disperse the water. Probably need a grate to keep everything off the bottom.
This concept is for like camping or beach trips. Not so much as a fridge replacement