Date:         Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:18 -0700
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From:         neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Dometic Fridge Lit? 1991 Vanagon Westfalia
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> the 'weird thing' about the siht  hole is the 'sight  angle' ..
> very poorly designed.
> the sight angle is much lower than what you'd think it should be.
> you need to be on your knees in front of the fridge with your nose about 10
> inches off the floor to see the blue flame.
> with your face up near the controls , or that high like you'd normally be..
> the sihtt angle is wrong to see the flame.
> I hate dumb design - just no reason for it really.
> sometimes I put a piece of blue masking tape on the left wall of the fridge
> to show what the sight  angle is, it's much lower than you expect.
> Don't know if this applies to your year fridge ..but it does to 84 or so
> westy's.


Too true!

The hole is at a really unfriendly angle!  FWIW, both on my 182A and
182B are like this.

A cardboard tube or similar is really useful to see flame. Especially mid day.

For the OP, a short video clip of my Dometic fridge flame I shot yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpPm7D-HbxQ

Pt 1: flame in heating mode, some ambient light.
Pt 2: Flame switching between heating and pilot mode. You can hear the
"click" from thermostat
Pt 3: Flame flickers brighter.

Mainly to show what flame may look like and what it looks like when it
goes from pilot to heating size.

Neil.


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