Yes except if I remember correctly, the tubing in the isotherm condenser is housed in a thru-hull which provides a thick casing offering greater protection from electrolysis and etc whereas the walls of the cupronickel heat exchanger tube of an A/B system are thin and therefore more subject to pinholing (from what I have read)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Norm of Bandersnatch Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] refrigeration Wouldn't the failure of the condenser section in the water require "total system replacement" just as a heat exchanger with seawater pumped through it, for the same reasons of cross contamination? Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL > [Original Message] > From: John Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 11/19/2007 10:05:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] refrigeration > > Not quite true here Lee. The Isotherm has no pump and no fan. The > condenser section is in the water, like keel cooling. Less moving parts > than any system and very efficient. > > > > > Water cooling is to be avoided if possible...With water cooling there is > the pump electricity use, this is not made up in efficiency gains, there > is pump reliability and there is heat exchanger failure that requires > total system replacement. > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
