Date:         Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:58:36 -0700
Reply-To:     craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: problem with 12v power to dometic frig- long
Comments: To: Rick Foster <redhawkf@peoplepc.com>
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The first thing to keep in mind is that the fridge on 12v only works while
the engine is running, and takes quite some time to "warm up". If you have
the fridge completely off and turn it onto 12 v and drive for 2+ hours,
you'll feel the fins getting cold. If you just drove around town....i
wouldn't expect much of anything. The 12v selection is really just to keep
things cold while driving (unless your running on propane too).

I was once told that with a Dometic fridge, once you do anything to it for
the first time that day (Turn it on), it will do nothing for an hour....THEN
it will start to cool. The first hour is just the system cycling. This isn't
entirely true, but it feels right. You can't expect instant cooling.

-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
BOSTIG in the back

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Rick Foster <redhawkf@peoplepc.com> wrote:

>   Hello all!  This is my first foray into the list. I've learned much from
> you all over the last several months.  This is a great group, your sharing
> in all things vanagon, and not, is a great example of community. I look
> forward to meeting some of you at campouts in the future. Your varied
> expetise and experiences have inspired me to fall in love all over again
> with my '85 Westy, 2.1 Wbxr. "Cassidy" was my daily driver for 10 years
> since 1993 and now this list has emboldended me to take on rejuvenating him
> in ways that I've not ventured before. Some I'ld like to share with the list
> like "tubaniel" and "Bennyboy" and others when I learn how to up-load pics
> and such.  Your great!
>
>    Now I'm stumped and stymied with getting back on the road with my
> Dometic working.  It never has, but with help of Lorean and Ken, I took it
> out, refurbished it, bench tested each system and it worked. Before putting
> it in, I tested the 12v input and here's what I've got:
>
>  1- no auxillary battery, just stock wiring to'refrigerator heater
> relay'(bently 97.32.e), plan to put in aux bat in future.
>
>  2- clean wiring from relay thru fuse block and to ignition switch.
>
>  3- + Power from bat at term 87 thru term 30 to frig connection.
>
>  4- continuity in blue wire from term 87 to D connection at the
>      alternator.
>
>  5- No Power at term 85 from the ignition switch but + continuity thru this
> wire to the ingnition terminal (term 50).  This term is coupled with a #10
> wire that goes I know not where. Bently (97.62) looks like it's track 78,
> but it looks like it goes off where 'no man has been before'! I can't read
> any 'track 78' anything functional and I'm not spark engineer. Spock where
> you!
>
>  Any help is greatly appreciated!  And when I learn how to up load pics in
> these e-mails I'll be happy to send them along.
>
>  I'm in Medford, OR and it was on 'Cassidy' that 'scott turbovans' helped
> me solve a boiling over problem on my new engine with re-tightening the
> heads.
>
>  TIA,
> Rick
>
>
>
>
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