I get what you mean. This is what tried to do with the cooling unit itself. On my 182A it was held together with screws. Maybe all later models use rivets? Some images showing paste I used and OEM paste. https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/DometicPics#5352617382479099090 I always wondered if I didn't do more harm than good removing the brown paste and using the CPU type heat transfer compound. This image shows ice on the LH of cooling unit but I never saw it ice up on RH (on that particular fridge) https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-eSl_i9ukmMk/Srp0taCepSI/AAAAAAAAGAQ/AnK3B0tyeeM/s720/HappyFridge.jpg Then again, the small muffin fan, running 24/7, might have something to to with lack of ice on RH end. That said, both my Dometics would get quite cold if it wasn't too hot out.
Neil. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:32 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> ...... The dirty little secret of heat-conducting paste is > that it's a pretty good insulator. If you use more than the absolute bare > minimum it will be worse than using none at all. > > What it's supposed to do is fill in the microscopic voids between the high > spots where the metal actually touches. There's a lot more void area than > contact area even on extremely smooth metal. The ideal installation would > have all the voids filled but still have the high spots touching. This is > practically impossible, but it's what you're shooting for.
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