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Subject:Re: FYI - Venting for mobile refrigerators
From:Michael Elliott
Date:Thu, 5 Jul 2007 12:12:03 -0700

Thanks for that, Todd. I think it was a year or two ago that some
science-minded listee determined that the air /under/ a van was several
degree cooler than what was in it or around it. A fellow could close off
the vent below the front of the Dometic as well as any other sources of
inside air, and cut a new vent to draw in that cooler air. Screened to
keep out little critters, of course. Then box in the cooling unit and
baffle it as your page shows, then draw out the heated air with a fan,
as the page suggests, either by blowing it into the van's interior
through the existing vent behind the stove, or out through the side.

I wish I had an industrial oven that I could try a bunch of experiments in.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

Todd P. Last typed:
> Interesting article on fridge venting - might be good for generating ideas.
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> http://rvmobile.com/Tech/Trouble/vent.htm