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  • From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Refrigeration at market
  • Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 21:19:49 -0400

> Allan...we've been dealing with this issue at market for a few years.
We had folk show up with generators....same issue....who wants to be set
up next to a smokey noisy generator running all day? Several of us who
are off-grid helped work out systems for the egg, cheese and meat folk.
Small camper refrigerators are available cheap and used. They are
required to not put out lots of heat so as to be safe in a trailer, as a
result are very efficient. I have a few that I use at home for produce.
Our market folk are powering them with an inverter connected to the
battery of their vehicle. Inverters convert the DC power of batteries
to AC power of most appliances. Thanks to laptop batteries that folk
want to charge in their cars, most auto parts stores are carrying cheap
inverters. Be sure to match the power to your fridge.
Quiet and efficient---we now power amplifiers for our Market Music folk
this same way. Good luck Sora

Sora - You mean to say that a car battery will run the fridge for 4 hours without going dead? (Without the car running?) That's pretty amazing but I, too, figured there must be a nautical appliance that was operating on that low of juice, as well. Thanks -Allan in WV




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