Date:         Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:55:03 -0700
Reply-To:     neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: FYI - Venting for mobile refrigerators
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
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That was me!

(and I still haven't had the balls to cut a hole in floor under fridge)

And further to that idea, I thought it would be good to use a manifold
of some sort through which air would be drawn in "against" frame of
van. The frame is metal is cool to the touch, so air being drawn
against it should get cooled down.

The immediate problem associated with this plan, is in the UNlikely
event there was an LP leak at tank, then if fan on, LP would get
sucked into van.

The other problem is that I wanted to use a fairly high CFM fan. Likel
a bilge blower. The one I looked at in local marine shop drew around 4
amps. It blew lots of air (to feel) like I thought it should to make
this hack worthwhile, but with that kind of draw, no way.

Maybe a PC case fan would suffice.......

Neil.


--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil


On 7/5/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that, Todd. I think it was a year or two ago that some
> science-minded listee determined that the air /under/ a van was several
> degree cooler than what was in it or around it. A fellow could close off
> the vent below the front of the Dometic as well as any other sources of
> inside air, and cut a new vent to draw in that cooler air. Screened to
> keep out little critters, of course. Then box in the cooling unit and
> baffle it as your page shows, then draw out the heated air with a fan,
> as the page suggests, either by blowing it into the van's interior
> through the existing vent behind the stove, or out through the side.
>
> I wish I had an industrial oven that I could try a bunch of experiments in.
>
> --
> 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
>
>
>
> Todd P. Last typed:
> > Interesting article on fridge venting - might be good for generating ideas.
> >
> >
> > http://rvmobile.com/Tech/Trouble/vent.htm
>