Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:31:34 -0500
Reply-To: "Joe L." <jliasse@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: "Joe L." <jliasse@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject: Re: Refrigirator removal and Haynes/Bentley manuals
I have heard of doing this from several sources. Mostly RV magazine
maintenance articles. The theory is that the mixture in there can separate
into its components like a salid dressing. If the fridge is used regularly
the normal circulation during use keeps everything well mixed but if it has
been a while (no defination for "while") since it was lit off the mixture
needs to be agitated some before it will work at peak efficiency.
I don't know how true this is but as I saw no harm in trying it I did
it myself the last time I had the fridge out except I only did it for one
day. There WAS a noticable improvement in performance but wether this is
attributable to standing it upside down or to the other cleaning chores I
did I cannot say.
Let me say that I have not the slightest idea of how these things work.
It is possible that Wes is totally correct and that it was only by sheer
luck that I did not do damage to my unit. Being the paranoid type I am going
to take his advice and check this out before I take things apart again next
spring.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Neuenschwander <wesn@ESKIMO.COM>
To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM <vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: Refrigirator removal and Haynes/Bentley manuals
>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
>
>> From: Earl Smith <earlsmit@ISLANDNET.COM>
>
>> 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
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