At 09:45 PM 6/8/2003, Germain wrote: >Are you kidding? I tough the solution inside the fins was only amoniac gas >and hydrogen. It's ammonia, hydrogen, water, and a suspension of sodium chromate for anticorrosion. The suspension stays in the bottom with some of the ammonia and most of the water unless it gets baked onto the boiler walls because of operating at too great an angle. The hydrogen, ammonia and water vapor circulate around in various interesting ways in the upper parts -- there's a good description and diagram at www.rvmobile.com/ . Dometic recommends that before replacing the fridge in a vehicle it should be tilted in each direction to avoid any pockets of liquid in the wrong place that might slow down the initial operation -- but there really isn't any possibility of anything needing to be redistributed to the top of the fridge because of it having sat in operating position for a long time. What goes up is gas and vapor, and it condenses or liquefies and comes back down again as part of the cycle. david -- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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