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If you're contemplating upgrading your compressor and evaporator plate to a more modern unit then I'd advise not to hesitate, go do it. I thought about it for too long but this spring took the plunge and spent £750 for a new frigoboat "paris 35" kit from penguin engineering. Expensive maybe, but what a difference! Much more efficient, drawing only 3A compared to the old unit at 5A and it seems to cycle at a lower rate too so power consumption is well down, by as much as half I reckon. The old unit was the original 1995 unit so it was time-served. The heat exchanger seems to be the big difference, it is constructed of many thin aluminium fins rather like a car radiator whereas the old unit was just a simple wire grid arrangement. I should have done it five years ago, well worth the time and effort. Penguin Engineering very helpful.
