A copy of the owners/operation manual for the Dometic RC160E portable
refrigerator is located in the [Photos] section of the Wolfsburg Campers
group on Yahoo.com (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers). You
should feel the metal element cooling after about 1/2 hour after being
plugged into AC or DC and you shouldn't hear anything running, there isn't a
fan though I have added one to the inside of the refrigerator.

I would pull off the back and clean the coils off and check the voltages
present on the heater elements.

Good luck

Tim Hannink
Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition
Winter Park, Florida
http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers
http://photos.yahoo.com/tjhannink Vanagon Album

----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Heidcamp <RHeidcamp01@COMM-WORKS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: Dometic Fridge question

> I just received in the mail the fridge for my 85 Westy weekender.  Its the
> cooler looking one that screws down to the floor behind the passenger
seat.
> I've been looking for this fridge since I bought my van about two years
ago.
>
>
> Anyway I plugged the fridge into a 110 AC outlet here at work and set the
> fridge to max.  Just like the instructions say to.  Anyway, I don't here
any
> noise or feel any cooling.  I only left the fridge plugged in for a few
> minutes.  So my question is should I hear, feel something doing something.
> If so, what goes wrong with these fridges?  I'll pull it apart tonight and
> dig into it with an multi meter and some 409.  Plus test the 12V side of
> things.  Of course, I'm making the assumption that the 12V side of things
in
> my bus will work.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> P.S.  Its nice to be back on the email list and working on the Vanagon.  I
> took a year leave from the Vanagon to build a 2001 GTI.