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Date:         Fri, 1 Jun 2012 22:13:28 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Dometic Frig  Will not stay cold with DC current
Comments: To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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At 09:39 PM 6/1/2012, Dennis Haynes wrote: >circuit. The fridge is an absorption unit so it is a heater that makes the >thing work. It draws ~7A/H so it really is not practical to run it off a >battery with the engine not running.

Jon, if you're using it for stop and go driving the boiler cools off fairly quickly when you stop the engine and then takes maybe twenty minutes after you start the engine to begin cooling again. I think the manual actually says that you should see evidence of cooling within a couple of hours after starting, but it's actually faster than that. Also it will never work as well when you're moving (whether using DC or gas) because the whole thing works by gravity and when you start shaking it around it doesn't work as well.

Yours, David


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