In a message dated 27/06/2006 10:08:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

.....  internal air-stirring fan, another fan to
> exhaust hot air out  the
> side of the van.

Interesting. A fan to take the hot air  outside....hmmm.....

Here's a novel idea that I have incorporated in my  fridge set-up that really
works !  Someone on this list posed this a while  back so a search of the
archives should turn it up.  Anyways, here  goes.  Remove the city water port
assembly, cut out the centre portion so  that you have a door and frame assembly
with nothing in the centre.   Get  a 3" 12 volt computer fan and mount that
fan to the backside of the  city water port so that is sucks the hot air from
behind the fridge to the  outside atmosphere.  I picked up the 12 volt power
from the LED panel on  the cabinet and mounted a small LED push button switch to
operate the fan on the  cabinet just next to the LED panel.  The flap door is
held open with a  popcicle stick when the fan is operation.  I will soon
change the switch to  a micro switch mounted so that when the door is opened the
fan will come  on.  Getting the heat from behind the fridge to the outside of
the vehicle  is IMPORTANT.  Why those super duper German engineers thought that
pumping  the hot air into the camper was gonna work is beyond me.  Once the
interior  of the camper stabilizes at around 80 degrees the fridge ceases to
work  properly.

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
'87 Westy, '90 Carat, '87 Wolfsburg  (Forsale) & Lionel Trains
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