Date:         Sat, 13 May 2000 15:47:55 -0400
Reply-To:     Adam Puzerewski <puzerewski@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Adam Puzerewski <puzerewski@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: Fridge topic
Comments: To: Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>

If you are travelling and stopping about quite a bit, propane is the way to
go. If I were travelling OTR, I would run 12V.  The convenience of the
propane in such a situation is why I was arguing to people that want to keep
switching from 12v to prop.

Adam Puzerewski
81 westy
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, May 13, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Fridge topic


>I think I must have missed something.  What is the logic behind wanting to
run
>the fridge on propane while driving?  You'd be using up your fridge's
camping
>energy source while traveling when you could be conserving the propane by
>running off the battery/alternator.  I'm reasonably sure that if you work
out
>the energy calculations, you'll find the propane to be more efficient than
>electricity, but it still misses the point of having the propane as an
energy
>source when you don't have access to electricity . . .
>
>Just curious,
>Marc Perdue