this afternoon I did a quick measurement of the cooling ability of the Dometic 182 fridge in my '82 Westy. The fridge had been cleaned (combustion chamber 3 years ago, fins on back last year) and a small muffin fan installed that blows air down over the interior cooling fins. The fridge lit first try and the measurements were taken by an inexpensive indoor/outdoor digital thermometer. The probe was hung in the fridge so that it was in the middle of the fridge space. The fridge was empty and the interior fan was running. Here are the data: time (min) fridge temp (C) van temp (C) 0.0 19.7 21.6 59.0 12.1 20.9 65.0 10.9 20.8 76.0 9.4 20.9 223.0 2.9 19.3 240.0 2.5 19.7 267.0 2.1 18.6 329.0 1.7 15.9 I have to say (again) that the bright blue LED swap (as suggested and outlined by Mike D. in his post "Quick Mod : Blue LED for Refrigerator") is a really worthwhile modification. Alistair
-- '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94 albell@uvic.ca http://members.shaw.ca/albell |
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