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Does the Airflow Around My Boat Appliances Affect the Amp Draw?

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 hello everyone we've got a question from  a fellow boater named gisele giselle  asked jeff our freezers fridge and ice  maker all have vent in front for  circulation  i'm assuming  i've noticed as they get quite clogged  most kid and dog hair what does this  have on the appliances are they working  harder are you drawing more hams this is  a good point now this is not electrical  so you know i'm going to fall out of my  era of ex area of expertise here but yes  it's really advisable to make sure that  you have good air flow  to allow the refrigerators on our boat  to be able to cool  right and in doing so  they actually are uh exchanging uh air  to make and they're gonna create warmer  air to make cool air inside of the  refrigerator so yes  it's it's advisable absolutely to make  sure that the vents and the grills on  the compressors  are don't have too much dust and if they  do those are very fine dust you want to  use a vacuum or a shop vac you know with  soft bristles  so that you can actually remove all this  sort of like  fine debris on the grills so that your  devices don't have to work as hard and  that's the gisele's question is the  reality is that anything that has to  work harder than it needs to will  effectively have to run longer  and harder for it to do the same thing  it would if there was better air  circulation so giselle is right uh you  want to make sure that your ice box  compressors or whatever they are  whatever refrigeration system you have  have adequate ventilation and that the  grills on  those devices are  as much as possible free from excessive  dust  dog hair or whatever else sort of loose  particles are in our boats that can clog  and effectively make our fridges less  efficient so that's a good question from  gizelle thanks for all of you for  watching  and  safe boating so if you're curious again  go on our website and find out more  answers and solutions with this sort of  setup and thanks for asking and thanks  for all of you for listening and tuning  in 

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