Date:         Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:04:05 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Call for Papers: "My Norcold DC0040"
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Posting a message with even a casual mention of the Norcold DC0040
refrigerator usually triggers a small flood of followup posts from folk
who are curious about them.

Because it's not a drop-in replacement for the Dometic, and because it
requires a few dozen ampere-hours per day to run, one topic spawns
another as discussions about installation, compressor noise, power
management, the aux battery, how to keep it charged, relays versus
isolators and other wiring issues come up.

It seems to me that it might be useful to make a Norcold/Westy web page.
And I'd be happy to build the page. But I need content! I'd just write
about my own installation but no two Norcold installations are alike so
I'm putting out a "call for papers" from folk who have installed and are
using a Norcold DC0040* in their Westy.

P-mail your words and photos to me, links to pages that already exist,
your tips and tricks, those pictures of your grandkids, and I can put it
all onto a web page,** giving credit where credit is due to create a
possibly useful resource so that the next time someone says, "My Dometic
isn't keeping food as cold as I'd like," and someone else says, "I had
that problem, too, and that's why I put in a Norcold," and then when
someone else says, "What's that? How'd you do it?", that someone else
can be pointed to the Westy/Norcold page.

* Or DE0040.

** Probably not the shot of the grandkids unless there's a DC0040 in the
picture, too. Use your imagination, for God's sake!

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR