Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:52:20 -0700
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From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Modifying a Dometic Refrigerator in an 84 Westy
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I pulled my fridge a few days ago because it wouldn't cool below 50 degrees and then stopped working altogether. The burn chamber was full of deposits and the nozzle was clogged. The fan was not working either.
Somewhere I read that turning the fridge upside -down overnight helps to recombine the chemicals or get them back in their proper place or something like that. So I did this first. .
Then I added the fridge computer fan on the top fins and a stock replacement motor for the bottom fins. I also added heat sink paste to the thermostatic heat switch for the fans.
Finally, I hooked it up to propane and ran it all day. The results: The fridge cools to 25 degrees. The outside air temp was 60.
This is pretty good. I have yet to see how the fans help.
Before I put the fridge back in, I put a layer of aluminum sandwich bubble wrap insulation against the wall.
Other improvements from cleaning the burner chamber and nozzle is the fridge now lights on propane instantly.
This is the second fridge I serviced this year and the last one had a lowest temp of 22.5 degrees.
Most of this info that I used is stored in the archives titled "refrigerator madness" by Derek Drew.
Robert
1982 Westfalia
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Subject: Modifying a Dometic Refrigerator in an 84 Westy
Hi all,
I need the advice of some of the Refrig experts on the list. I am going to
try and increase the efficiency of the Dometic frig. in my 84 Westy. I have
read that some people add a computer fan to the coils on the back of the
refrigerator. I am planning on doing that, What I am wondering is should I
disconnect the stock fan and mount the computer fan in its place? Or
perhaps should I try and keep them both? Would two computer fans be better
then one? Perhaps one on the top coil and one on the bottom coil? Does this
modification really make a difference? Also is there any truth to the rumor
that by turning the refrigerator upside down for a period of time before
re-installing it that sometimes efficiency is increased?
Thank you all for any help you can give me I really appreciate it!
--- Jeffory Schiebel
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