Full Fridge
I'm not sure what you mean. My unit is so old that the condenser fan is not ducted or shrouded in any way. It is aimed so that ambient air is pulled through the condenser and the fan exhaust (warm air) blows over the compressor and into my starboard lazarette. (I've been thinking about ducting a vent out the aft end of the coaming to help get rid of the excess heat... it's on the list but pretty far down)
If you're talking about a fan inside the fridge, I don't think it matters. The idea of a fan inside the fridge is to circulate cold air.
Ideally, one would have a fridge full of cold beer without enough air space left over to worry about circulating it.
If you have a fridge with a freezer partition and say a holding plate inside the freezer section where 'spillover' cold air is supposed to keep the fridge cold, then you need a fan to help pull air from the cold (freezer side) to the fridge side but I don't know as it matters much which way the fan is blowing.
My refrigerator compartment has the standard (small) Adler-Barbor Evaporator box that measures about 12" wide by 10" deep by maybe 5" wide. Inside the box is freezer compartment. Anything you put inside the box freezes solid. In fact anything you put under the box in the bottom of the fridge freezes too as will anything in close proximity to the box. We have to be careful to make sure the milk and beer stay far enough away from the freezer box. Nothing worse than sitting down to enjoy a cold one and finding out that it's frozen beer slushy or worse.
But all things considered, I prefer the full fridge theory.
I also have an Adler Barbour fridge system , with the air cooled plates. Recently, my motors burnt out, and I replaced them. Can anyone confirm the direction of the blades for the fans? Am I right that the fan inside the box blows air towards the plate, and the one outside blows air away, or do I have it wrong?
I'm not sure what you mean. My unit is so old that the condenser fan is not ducted or shrouded in any way. It is aimed so that ambient air is pulled through the condenser and the fan exhaust (warm air) blows over the compressor and into my starboard lazarette. (I've been thinking about ducting a vent out the aft end of the coaming to help get rid of the excess heat... it's on the list but pretty far down)
If you're talking about a fan inside the fridge, I don't think it matters. The idea of a fan inside the fridge is to circulate cold air.
Ideally, one would have a fridge full of cold beer without enough air space left over to worry about circulating it.
If you have a fridge with a freezer partition and say a holding plate inside the freezer section where 'spillover' cold air is supposed to keep the fridge cold, then you need a fan to help pull air from the cold (freezer side) to the fridge side but I don't know as it matters much which way the fan is blowing.
My refrigerator compartment has the standard (small) Adler-Barbor Evaporator box that measures about 12" wide by 10" deep by maybe 5" wide. Inside the box is freezer compartment. Anything you put inside the box freezes solid. In fact anything you put under the box in the bottom of the fridge freezes too as will anything in close proximity to the box. We have to be careful to make sure the milk and beer stay far enough away from the freezer box. Nothing worse than sitting down to enjoy a cold one and finding out that it's frozen beer slushy or worse.
But all things considered, I prefer the full fridge theory.