Date:         Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:00:32 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: fridge on dc power
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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---- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> At 11:41 PM 7/11/2012, Gab and Em wrote:
> >Gonna show my ignorance here again; but what the heck, here goes.
> >-My mum told me to take my fridge out and turn it upside down for 24 hours
> >before re-installing it to get the fridge to work on LP.  Not really sure I
> >buy it; but I can't argue it.
>
> Dometic service instructions state that after the fridge has been
> removed and put in unusual positions it will begin cooling faster
> *the first time* if before replacement it is inverted a few times to
> mix up the ingredients* properly.  There's no useful effect from any
> long-term inversion, and no effect at all beyond the first time the
> cooling cycle starts up.

So, I am a little unclear on this.  Does it mean that at the second startup after reinstall, it will cool at the same rate as before service, or that it will not improve (cool faster) beyond what it did on first startup after service?  thanks, mcneely

>
> *Liquid water, water vapor, ammonia gas both free and dissolved in
> water and hydrogen gas, all at pressure around 450 psi.  Great
> explanation of how it all works here:
> http://www.rvmobile.com/Tech/Trouble/cooldoc.htm
>
> Yrs,
> d

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David McNeely