At 08:49 PM 3/24/2014, email99@bellsouth.net wrote: >I was at a RV service place today and they had never heard of using >a thermal paste like this. Does using thermal paste instead of >mounting the Evaporator Assembly dry really help in refrigerator >efficiency? I will, of course, put some Arctic Silver under the fan >switch on the upper fins. There's really little point in that, it will work just fine dry the way Dometic built it. It's just a thermostat. What you may need to do though is bend (or straighten really) the mounting tabs to restore the spring tension holding the switch against the fin. Zinc oxide thermal paste (or your fancy stuff) should work fine for the evaporator fins; just remember that you need an extremely thin layer or it will make things much worse than having none. You want to fill in the points where there's no metal-to-metal contact without destroying any such contact that exists. Yrs, d |
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