Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 21:42:44 -0400
Reply-To: Puzerewski <Puzerewski@email.msn.com>
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From: Puzerewski <Puzerewski@email.msn.com>
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Subject: Re: Adding Fridge Fans
The question that I have for those of you that have installed all these
fans......
what are the benefits? Cooler fridges? Mine seems do do OK with
one....wouldn't more kill the battery when it sits for a while in the heat?
Adam Puzerewski
81 westy
74 beetle
86 cabrio
Vanagon Partsmobiles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wes Neuenschwander" <wesn@eskimo.com>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Adding Fridge Fans
> Ditto here. In addition to verifying the amperages, I was able to semi-
> quantitatively assess the airflows using an air velocity meter. The stock
> Dometic and the Fridgemate had roughly the same airflow, while the 3
> muffin fans I checked all had substantially less. I installed the
> Fridgemate fan and it seems to be significantly superior to the stock
> Dometic in performance (based on on-off cycle times) and dramatically
> quieter than the Dometic (I rarely hear it, period).
>
> -Wes
>
> Date sent: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:56:58 -0700
> From: Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Adding Fridge Fans
>
> > I found similar results. The Fridgemate fan works great even in 100
> > degree plus weather and is much cheaper than I could get a stock Dometic
> > fan for. I have installed several in other people's Westys. Do not use
> > the thermo switch that comes with the Fridgemate as it runs the fan too
> > much and will never shut off if you camp in very hot weather. Use the
> > stock fin mounted switch and discard the Fridgemate one.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > David Beierl wrote:
> >
> > > A Dometic fan drawing 220 ma is not "stock" for the RM182B -- 60 ma is
a
> > > lot closer (I think it's specified as 0.67watts, too lazy to check).
The
> > > 220 ma fan is either not stock or is shorted internally. My rough
> > > blow-in-the-face estimates are that the Dometic *standard* fan and the
> > > FridgeMate are similar, with some advantage to the FridgeMate (as well
as
> > > it's much lower noise).
> > >
> > > :)
> > > david
> > > David Beierl - Providence, RI
> > > http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> > > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> > > '85 GL "Poor Relation"
> >
>
>
>
> Wes Neuenschwander
> Seattle, WA
> wesn@eskimo.com
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