Date:         Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:02:20 8
Reply-To:     Wes Neuenschwander <wesn@ESKIMO.COM>
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From:         Wes Neuenschwander <wesn@ESKIMO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Refrigirator removal and Haynes/Bentley manuals
Comments: To: Earl Smith <earlsmit@ISLANDNET.COM>, vanagon@vanagon.com

Whoa, I've never seen anything from Dometic suggesting inverting the refer
unit to improve performance.  Couple that with the cautionary notes about
operating these units even a few degrees out of level, and I'd be real
concerned about the advisability of standing them upside down for 48
hours.

In general, this is not a good thing to do with refrigeration equipment.
Absorption refrigeration systems, specifically, are designed to allow the
gravity return of the condensed gaseous phase component naturally.
Flipping the unit, it seems to me, would only serve to allow the
non-volatile absorptive phase component to get up into the condenser and
evaporator coils where it might screw things up.

I'd definitely talk to the Dometic folks before trying this one.  You can
reach them at 219-463-4858.

-Wes

> Date:          Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:37:58 -0800
> From:          Earl Smith <earlsmit@ISLANDNET.COM>
> Subject:       Re: Refrigirator removal and Haynes/Bentley manuals

> At 09:07 PM 10/28/98 -0400, you wrote:

[snipped]

> While you have the fridge out, stand it upside down for 48 hours to get
> the ammonia mixed up in the system again.
>
>
> Earl from Sunny Sooke, B.C.
>  At the tip of soon-to-be-overloaded-and-sink Vancouver Island
> 84 ex-California Westie
>

Wes Neuenschwander
Seattle, WA
wesn@eskimo.com