Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:08:09 -0500
Reply-To: wilden1@JUNO.COM
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From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Refrigerator cooling: Do extra fans help?
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What works best on my Westy Refrigerators is:
Pre Cool the night before with 110 v or Lp fuel.
Put a can of ice cubes or pre cooled aluminum cans of drinks in the box.
Install a little computer CPU fan with the heat sink up high on the wall
or roof area on the interior of the box (use double sided 3 M tape). 12v
dc runs on your car current.
Fans in the rear might help but I never had to go that far to get my
munchkin ice trays to freeze.
Conditioning the fridge before you leave is the single most important
thing I've found to enhance the abilities of the fridge. Once the
interior temp is brought down the unit has no problem maintaining it.
Without this pre conditioning it sometimes takes 12-20 hours to freeze
the munchkin cubes, with the computer fan, can of ice it will be frozen
in less than 4 hours. Your fridge will be at about 42 degrees or less
within 2 hours. Once the temp is down remove the cvan of half melted ice
cubes and stock your fridge.
Strange but true.
Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:23:20 EDT Ken Hunter <EVEHART33@AOL.COM> writes:
> I always read the refrigerator threads hoping to pick up tips to
> improve the
> cooling ability. Some of the tips involved adding an extra cooling
> fan or
> fans to remove more of the hot air that builds up behind the
> refrigerator and
> presumably aid cooling.I don't know how I overlooked this before but
> I read
> in a recent post that the Dometic RM 182 is designed to cool a
> maximum of
> only 40F below the outside ambient temperature. I've been checking
> mine on
> 120VAC and propane and find this figure to be roughly accurate. Has
> anyone
> added the extra fans and improved on this figure?
> Thanks,
>
>
> Ken Hunter
> 82 Westy 1.9D NA
> 84 Jetta 1.5D NA
> 89 Mitsubishi van 2.4gas
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