Date:         Wed, 14 May 2008 20:06:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Rear External Fridge Fan
Comments: To: Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
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Blow out -- you want to exhaust the heat from the rear of the refrigerator.
--
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



On 5/14/2008 5:28 PM Edward Maglott wrote:

> Does anybody have any photos of this fan set up in the city water
> hole?  Do you have it blow in or out?
> Thanks,
> Edward
>
> At 05:51 AM 5/11/2008, Frank Condelli wrote:
>
>> Harold,  I have installed a 4" ~ 5" computer muffin fan in the place of the
>> City Water  Outlet on my van and it helps tremendously in keeping the fridge
>> running in hot  weather.  The City water outlet is pretty much right where the
>> highest  concentration of heat is behind the fridge.  I have done this mod to
>> many  of my customers vans and all report improved functioning of their
>> fridges.   What I did was to cut the back off of the City Water
>> Outlet then mount the
>>  muffin fan to the back of the housing.  How I mount the fan depends on the
>> size and configuration of the fan.  Some I have glued some I was able  to use
>> two of the City Water Outlet's mounting screws, diagonally opposed.   Then I
>> either wire it up to a switch on the sink front next to the
>> LED  panel or mount
>> a micro switch on the City Water Outlet so that when the door is  opened the
>> fan come on.  The door is held open with a popcicle stick.   Power for this
>> fan is picked up at the LED sink front panel.  One  thing to note is
>> that I may
>> not be good to run this fan consistently as  there is a possibility of cooling
>> the fins at the rear of the fridge too  much.  So then I was then thinking to
>> connect that fan to the thermocouple  switch at the rear of the fridge.  Jury
>> is still out on this idea.
>