Trevor S wrote... > I'm considering buying something along the lines of a thermo-electric > cool box, unfortunately (although I do know the principles - we used > them a lot in the high vacuum industry when we sold mercury diffusion > pumps) a lot) I've no experience of them when used as a cold box / > refrigerator on a narrowboat.
We used a large Camping Gaz one on Badger for a few years after the gas fridge had to come out (for some reason the surveyor wasn't happy with it propped up on 4 house bricks)! It was fairly effective even when only run for 30 minutes or so a couple of times a day. As far as I can recall we never had milk go off - usually the quickest indicator - even if it had been open for a few days. I'd echo Roger's comment that they're not ideal, but certainly it worked for me. We had a slight advantage with a well insulated wooden-top boat so the interior temperature never got that high of course. Glen
