My question is: Does humidity have an effect on the cooling of the Dometic? Last March & April we camped for 12 days, from MA to FL and back. No matter what the temperature during the day, the fridge on AC got down to 27 or so degrees at night. It got so cold at night that I would wait until night to put stuff in that was warm like a few cans of soda. l The night temperatures in FL were about 65 to 73 or so. We seemed to have no trouble running it on gas during the day, the highest it ever got was about 48 in constant 85 degree heat parked with the sun on that side of the van. Last weekend camping in New Hampshire (very hot, in the 90s) we couldn't get it below about 35 at night although the nightime temperatures outside were probably in the high 50s or so. The fan is running, nothing has changed, we pack the fridge the same way we always do with about the same stuff. Does anyone think that the humidity has anything to do with the fridge performance? The air was pretty dry on the trip to Florida but not last weekend. Wendy & John Cape Cod, MA '85 Westy, "S-CAPE" LiMBO members |
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