In addition to having to get rid of the heat sucked from your food, your old Dometic also had the heat of its gas flame/heater coil to get rid of. Your swell new compressor refrigerator still has to get rid of food heat, and the motor makes its own heat (though it's a lot less than the Dometic's heater!) BUT it's a lot less sensitive to ambient temperature than the Dometic (which is not constitutionally capable of handling high ambient temps <pause for Mark Drillock to object ... no objection so move on>). As a result there is less heat to get rid of and less reason to worry about it, so the existing cabinet vents are quite adequate. Buts, if one lived in a hot clime and would rather that the waste heat not be vented into the van's interior, then one could put a 12V fan in the opening formerly used to exhaust the former reefer's combustion products and just blow that hot air outside. -- 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 6/5/2008 1:14 AM Jeffrey Vickers wrote: > I just got a 12V Isotherm fridge (nearly identical to the Vitrifrigo) > and I'm wondering if they need any sort of venting --- like the > Dometic --- or will the vent on the back of the fridge/stove cabinet > suffice? Also - if you don't need the old external vent anymore, what > have 12V fridge owners done about the vent hole in the side of the van? > > Jeff / San Anselmo > |
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