Mike was recently asked to analyse an ice maker in order to determine its performance before and after the application of a special energy saving product.  In order to achieve this, it was necessary to closely monitor all the key parameters of the ice maker and then draw comparison on a before/after basis to determine if the energy saving product had indeed brought about any significant and measurable improvement.

At the time of writing this article, the details of the tests are confidential but we are permitted to show the performance of the machine during one test operation where Mike used the ClimaCheck Performance Analyser. 
 

The ClimaCheck Graph View is perhaps the most interesting in that this showed how the Ice Making Machine performed consistently at approximately 20 minute intervals for each ice making cycle.  Of particular interest, was the stable flat line temperature measure by ClimaCheck during the ice making phase where the temperature of the water/ice stays perfectly stable at 0°C whilst the latent heat of fusion is extracted.  This in fact was a good test for demonstrating ClimaCheck’s temperature sensing and monitoring accuracy, this also being the case where precise pressure measurements and power input measurements are also derived.