On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Richard A Jones<jones@colorado.edu> wrote: > Loren wrote: >> It seemed to help but not near as much >> as the vent fan I put in that pulled the hot air out. > > I've seen the bubble-wrap outside layer. Others have > changed the fiberglass inside to fancier stuff. My > only observation, with a Vitri installed, but the original > fiberglass still there, is that with an infrared thermometer > I can't see any difference anywhere on the inside walls, > which lead me to think the insulation doesn't make much > difference. > > But several different reports from "people who know" > indicate that replacing the city water intake with a muffin > fan to exhaust heat from behind the fridge makes a very > big difference. > See the third pix down: > http://jones.colorado.edu/MoabApril09/seven.html > > Richard > Thanks Richard et al. I have installed a city water fan. Seems to help. But.... Based upon helpful lister input, and my gut instinct, I'll bet that w/o insulation, IF left parked on a hot day with sun bearing down on driver side, the poor little Dometic would be pushed to the limit. Right now it's 87F with 40F in Dometic. And that's w/o rear fan/city fan on. (aux battery flat) When sun hits side, I'll see how much temps rise. We have a heat wave going on right now so wouldn't want to be yanking the fridge. But if the mood strikes, would be interesting to compare results. Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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