How to calcualte cooler BTU's

[Briar Buster]

does anyone know how to calculate the btu's required to cool a cooler - I have built a deer cooler that is 6 ft x 7 ft x 8 ft tall (all inside measurements) the walls are 8 inch block filled w/ perlite and also has 2 inches of foam insulation board all the way around - the top has 14 inches of roll insulation - it sits on a concrete pad - I want to cool it 38 deg to 42 deg to hang deer in - I had a unit but was told it was too small and would not put out enought btu. I need to know the required btu a unit needs to put out to cool it.

thanks for any help

[Country Boy]

From my understanding you shoud multiply the square ft by 25 and that would be the needed BTU.
In your case 1,050 BTU's.

[HARV]

Yeah,someone find out real quick like I need to build a portable moose cooler!I'm thinkin square footage wouldn't be enough cause we's talkin volume of the room!Just thinkin. [img]graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by HARVAGATOR:
Yeah,someone find out real quick like I need to build a portable moose cooler!I'm thinkin square footage wouldn't be enough cause we's talkin volume of the room!Just thinkin. [img]graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

This coming from a man that lives in an IGLOO to begin with.

[DUCKMAN]

I think it is the number of cubic feet times 25 which would be 8,400 - I would get a bigger unit than that!