> After reading Richard Jones findings on muffin fans (IIRC, he > speculated that 2 muffin fans may block convection air flow at > rear of Dometic thus forcing it to run more often) it occurred to me > that the Dometic prop might be a better design for this > application. Certainly better than the over sized CPU fan I currently > have mounted on my Dometic. Just get the fridge cool fan from: http://valterra.com/RV/refrigerator_fans.htm Ouch! $41! It is a very close replacement for the original Dometic fan. That's what I did a few years ago when my twin muffin fans didn't work as well as the original Dometic. I think you need to move the new fan motor to the old mounting bracket or adapt the new one or something, but you can figure that out. I do remember that I used the original thermo switch and not the Valterra one. I've moved on to a Vitri.... Richard |
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