Date:         Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:29:39 -0600
Reply-To:     Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dometic Rear Fan *prop* Better than CPU Fan?
Comments: To: musomuso@GMAIL.COm
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

> 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