Air Conditioning - Help cooling my home draft beer system

I've built a a draft beer system in my kitchen. I've been using a small commercial refer but it doesn't have adequate cooling capacity. Its installed in a kitchen cabinet, which doesn't provide enough circulation for the fridge to cool.

The space to put this in is really small, the fridge is only about 5 cf and thats all the room I have - so I'm thinking of building an insulated box and cool it with an externally mounted compressor, etc. - or remote mounting a condenser/coil and routing the cold air into the existing fridge. I also need to cool the lines going to the taps, which I've ducted inside a 2" ABS pipe, about 6 feet long.

Is there a cooling system that I can mount externally behind my fridge or box and route the cooled air into it.... or something along those lines?


Thanks for the help

One option would be to remove the center panel of the cabinet door. Decorative wire mesh or hardware cloth can be installed in the panel to allow air circulation around the fridge. In a country style kitchen, chicken wire can be used to cover the panel.

Thanks...unfortunately that won't work, though, due to my kitchen layout. I might, however, be able to cut out the sides of the cabinet, internally, and get some circulation, but I don't know if it will be enough...

You can move the compressor to where it can get air and will work. Just pipe back to the coil in the box .;)

Ed, thanks- thats exactly what I'd like to do. Is that something that a refrigeration guy would have to do? Also, this fridge has head dissipation lines around the box, under the exterior skin and outside of the internal insulation - those lines, I assume, are what cool the thing - and can't effectively because of being in the cabinet. If the compressor is moved outside of the fridge, are those lines no longer used or ?

Thanks!

A good tech could move the compressor and put a new condenser coil on it for the unit som where else. Dont know what you have now. Put you could build a cold box and get a cold coil to go into it a compressor condenser unit to go some where else. Think about all the cold boxes you see in the stores with food and cold beer in them . All the compressors for them are out on the roof or some where.;)