Filter Dryer for FrigoBoat System (Refer/Freezer) installed and works well! - 2017

This Filter Dryer from "Coastal Climate Control" installed which we thought we would use as back up if we needed it.
As it turns out we had trouble when we got back from the US and were recommissioning the boat. That meant we needed to install it.

December 2017 -  Tied up in the El Cid Marina Mazatlán, Mexico

That meant we had to remove the pesky propane locker. As a side note we have decided that next summer (we are staying in the mountains in Mexico) we will build a new propane box, smaller for one composite cylinder, hopefully 😖

This box is a real pain to get in and out. 

 

 

 Debbie climbs in!

 Debbie is taking out the propane box brackets so she\we can work in the area of the lazerett.

 

The instructions. This is plug-and-play and worked as advertised.
Frigoboat did a nice job with this system we think.

"Filter Dryer" to be installed.

One of the connector ends was pointing in the opposite direction from where we needed it to be. That meant we must move the coil of hose we had against the hull by bending it. That coil is the extra tubing from the Evaporator plate,

 We had to be careful not to kink the hose.

One fitting on the "Filter Dryer" goes to keel cooler.

This Fitting with the arrow pointing to it needs to be going up, not down.

 

 Survey time.

 

We, of course, installed our Frigoboat system after building our refer\freezer

and so we have the knowledge of how it all is working and set up.

Debbie with the wrenches on the nuts and re-connecting the fittings.

Debbie with the wrench disconnecting the conection to the keel cooler.

 We do not remember the sizes of the wrenches. They are Metric and one we did not have so I am thinking it was a #18. The big "Crescent" wrench (adjustable) was hard to work with but got the job done.

 

 Debbie making the connection "finger tight" now, as instructed in the directions..

 Here I am bending the tubing to the evaporator plate so it will match up with the filter dryer.

Next I bent the tubing to line up with the Filter Dryer fitting.

Debbie removing the dust cap from the filter dryer.

Essentially you disconnect the keel cooler connection to the evaporator and connect the keel cooler there. One end of the filter dryer to the keel cooler and one end of the filter dryer to the evaporator plate.  Note the black arrow on the big copper part - it's going in the correct direction...YAY!!!

This is now all done and the filter dryer stopped any problems we were having with the coolant freezing up. And it did that right away.
Back to blissful freezer with ice cream and a nice refer box.