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Posted by Old & Grumpy on March 6, 2008, 2:43 pm
>
>>I did not read all of posting so maybe some one have posted
>> already, I will assume that your Ice machine is wasting
>> lots of water so? why don't you get your self heat exchanger
>> a small condenser and use it in drain line of ice machine which
>> should be very cold and use it between gas line as superheat
>> removal you will gain efficiency all round. going in trouble
>> getting chiller to sub cool cooling water does not make any
>> sense to me might as well get another ice machine.
>>
>>> I have an ice machine that produces about 450 lbs per 24 hrs.
>>> In the winter!
>>> I live in Florida, in the summer the inlet water temperature can be
>>> close
>>> to 90*.
>>> I want to prechill the water to maybe 40*. The machine will need about 1
>>> gallon every 15 minutes.
>>> I'd like to use a small refrigerator to chill the water.
>>> I have a few details to work out, such as it takes 252 ft of 5/16"
>>> tubing to hold 1 gallon of water. (not practical)
>>> The refrigerator I'm looking at says 256 btu/hr.
>>> My question, how many btu does it take to reduce the temperature
>>> of 1 gallon of water from 90* to 40* in 15 minutes.
>>> Thanks, Mike
>>>
>>
> We need to stop talking about my ice machine, it quit working last night
> :-).
> I don't know much about ice machines but I had luck with me. The usual
> lights would not come on. I started looking over the schematic on the
> cover
> and noted the bin switch. For no particular reason I checked the
> continuity
> of the bin switch, it was open, I shorted the pin to ground and the
> machine
> started working. I got the switch and installed it and had the machine
> working in an hour.
> Mike
>
In mean time you had couple Irish Guinness and every body was happy
Tony
>
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