Date:         Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:06:24 -0700
Reply-To:     Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: refrigerator question
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Hmmm. Well, I will assume you also tried cooling it on AC mode first
once you arrived back home to attempt relight.

Clearing the air intake pipe might help. IIRC, I've used a ShopVac
with rubber hose shoved down the intake pipe at flue. The exhaust pipe
has (3?) dimples. Yes. Image:

http://tinyurl.com/mw5bnkb

so cleaning it with ShopVac, fridge still installed, may not be so
easy. Can't recall if I simply used a narrower hose. Even if I did, am
not sure it got past those dimples.

On 3/23/14, mcneely4@cox.net <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> Thanks Neil.  Right, I could not light the refrigerator back here in
> Oklahoma.  The highest altitude we were in with the vehicle in BBNP was
> about 4500 feet asl, and the camp site where it failed is only at 2800 feet
> asl.  Yes, propane stove worked fine.  So far as temperature and operation,
> the refrigerator has always worked very well in the eighties F, including on
> battery.  But we went for long stretches with the driver's side of the van
> in the sun, which is why I switched to propane for driving, as the
> refrigerator had warmed up to 10 C.  It usually stays around 4 C  when
> ambient is in the eighties F, or colder if ambient is in the sixties or
> below.  Sorry for mixing units, but the thermometer I use in the fridge is a
> C thermometer.  Four C is about 39 F.  I did try to blow in the drain tube
> with a piece of tubing.  Did not work.  But the refrigerator went out and
> warmed up while parked, which has never happened for me before.  Then I
> could not, and still cannot, relight it.
>
> mcneely
>
> -


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