Date:         Sat, 6 Oct 2001 00:11:06 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: The #@$@ Dometic R182 Fridge
Comments: To: staff@EARTHNOW.ORG
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Now you're cooling.
The little fan works great for me, same setup, little switch but I just
stuck mine to the wall with double sided tape because it had a nice big
aluminum heatsink on the fan.

Radio Shaque......... Are you from Quebec?
Reminds me of my dog Phydeaux.

Stan

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:34:50 -0700 The River Clan <staff@EARTHNOW.ORG>
writes:
> Hi gang!
>
> Back to trying to get the wiring and the fridge done. Today was
> fridge day.
>
> We put in the 12v little micro fan like suggested by a
> listmember/vanagon
> site, and it really helps! We put a switch for it so we could use it
> in
> propane mode right above the flame indicator meter by all the other
> buttons. We epoxied it to the top of the aluminum cooler fins, and
> ran a
> hole up the top. We scavenged the power from the lilac lead (the
> constant
> 12v line) and ran it to the switch. Very cool....! <Pun fully
> intended!>
>
> The fuseholder on the RM182 (Not the b, but just the 182) uses a
> funky
> swedish/metric fuse that requires custom ordering from Dometic. <And
> geez,
> do RV dealers dislike our westy, even knowing we have one!> Well, we
> went
> to Radio Shaque and they had a replacement fuse holder, that fit in
> the
> plastic bezel on the top of the fridge.... just exactly like the
> stock one.
> And it takes regular fuses!
>
> Now it works on 12v and 120v! Hooray
>
> But propane... we have a real head scratcher here. We're having
> troubles
> getting the fridge to light. <Right, who doesn't have this problem
> from
> what I hear> but everything, and I mean everything checks out. We
> had it
> all apart, the jet is clear, the combustion chamber clean and
> sealed, all
> the tubes blown out and cleaned, spark at the ignitor... sigh. But.
> It's
> not a virgin fridge, it's been opened up before! We noticed funky
> screws
> here and there, and some writing on it that is indistinguishable to
> us.
>
> In the RM182B (Yes I know it's a different fridge, but I can't find
> anything for the RM182) Repair Manual that you can download through
> one of
> the vanagon sites. (Jeesh, I can't find it right now, I just
> downloaded it)
> It states as one of the options in the trouble shooting chart for
> not
> lighting, "Gauze in Burner Head Clogged".
>
> What gauze are they talking about? There isn't any gauze in the
> burner head
> at all. Doesn't appear to have ever had any from what we can tell,
> unless
> PO took it out?
>
> Can someone please enlighten us about this "gauze in the the burner
> head"?
> Is this RM182 just a junker fridge that was discontinued so fast
> that they
> didn't bother to write manuals for it? Is propane use on it a lost
> cause?
> Is anyone out there that can send us hope?
>
> Thanks ever so much more so,
>
>
> Ri
>
>
> 87 Gl Westy
>
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