Date:         Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:00:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      RE: [VANAGON] Another dometic question-does size mat
              ter?
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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I can't believe no one has stated the obvious:  Size always matters! ;-0

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:10 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Another dometic question—does size matter?

Another observation I forgot to mention, that must be insulation-related:
if the sun changes to hit the front of the fridge door, I see an almost
immediate bump in inside fridge temperature.

Jim

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Soooo, has anyone explored opening and reinsulating one of these things?
> Even externally (meaning the inside of the pantry, the right sides of 
> the cabinets to the left, the top, bottom and backs with a high 
> quality insulation? Is it possible to get the cabinet open? I don't 
> see how it would be, having had the thing out several times, but I 
> haven't specifically looked for how to do so, either.
>
> My fridge does about that on AC, but won't pull a 40º F delta on 
> propane, especially as the temps get higher and higher the delta gets
smaller.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:39 PM, george jannini
<georgejoann@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>    Insulation- you must be joking.  A nice hot propane burner right 
>> underneath the box ain't exactly a help, either.
>>
>>    Incidentally, my fridge has been running on AC for a couple of 
>> days, box empty, van closed up (mostly).  At the moment it's around 
>> 82 degF inside the bus and  39 degF inside.
>>
>> Geo/ATL
>>
>
>