How about making a hood over the back of the fridge and venting the exhaust
to the outside? I'm sure people have noticed how HOT the inside of the van
gets with the fridge running - particularly in the summer when that fan
keeps kicking on.

Todd
'88 Westy

Stan Wilder wrote:

> What works best on my Westy Refrigerators is:
> Pre Cool the night before with 110 v or Lp fuel.
> Put a can of ice cubes or pre cooled aluminum cans of drinks in the box.
> Install a little computer CPU fan with the heat sink up high on the wall
> or roof area on the interior of the box (use double sided 3 M tape). 12v
> dc runs on your car current.
> Fans in the rear might help but I never had to go that far to get my
> munchkin ice trays to freeze.
> Conditioning the fridge before you leave is the single most important
> thing I've found to enhance the abilities of the fridge. Once the
> interior temp is brought down the unit has no problem maintaining it.
> Without this pre conditioning it sometimes takes 12-20 hours to freeze
> the munchkin cubes, with the computer fan, can of ice it will be frozen
> in less than 4 hours. Your fridge will be at about 42 degrees or less
> within 2 hours. Once the temp is down remove the cvan of half melted ice
> cubes and stock your fridge.
> Strange but true.
>
> Stan Wilder
> 83 Westfalia Air Cooled
>
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:23:20 EDT Ken Hunter <EVEHART33@AOL.COM> writes:
> > I always read the refrigerator threads hoping to pick up tips to
> > improve the
> > cooling ability. Some of the tips involved adding an extra cooling
> > fan or
> > fans to remove more of the hot air that builds up behind the
> > refrigerator and
> > presumably aid cooling.I don't know how I overlooked this before but
> > I read
> > in a recent post that the Dometic RM 182 is designed to cool a
> > maximum of
> > only 40F below the outside ambient temperature. I've been checking
> > mine on
> > 120VAC and propane and find this figure to be roughly accurate. Has
> > anyone
> > added the extra fans and improved on this figure?
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Ken Hunter
> > 82 Westy 1.9D NA
> > 84 Jetta 1.5D NA
> > 89 Mitsubishi van 2.4gas
>
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