Date:         Sun, 24 Jul 2022 19:35:48 -0700
Reply-To:     David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Stock fridge vent delete option
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
In-Reply-To:  <93C7CBDA-B1E6-4F03-BF43-F52C977A284A@shaw.ca>
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Sounds like it does a good job.  Congratulations.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 3:30 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> At home all day today, warm day now in the afternoon and I’m drenched in
> sweat from yard work.
>
> But….
>
> At noon I turned on the fridge , dc power. The inside van temp was 28, the
> inside fridge temp was 25. Van in the sun, fridge side of the van facing
> south.
>
> At one o’clock , fridge temp was 3.0.  Of course this is empty fridge and
> not pulling down the temp of non pre chilled comestibles. The temp in the
> fridge seems to range from 0 to 3 at this setting. Again the temp swing due
> to no thermal mass inside.
>
> But the point is, it cools down fairly fast.
>
> Just another bit of anecdotal evidence :-)
>
> Alistair
>
> On Jul 23, 2022, at 9:11 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Alistair, What about fit?  Dimensions a close replacement for the stock
> refrigerator?  It is quite a bit bigger, inside volume (cooled space).
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 6:55 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Yeah I went over. I’ve installed a Dometic CRX-50 fridge. And I
>> repurposed the stock fridge vent .
>> https://shufti.blog/2022/07/23/vanagon-stock-fridge-vent-delete-option/
>>
>> Alistair
>>
>