8 degrees leeway. It's apparently in the manual. That's a lot - if
you're comfortable sleeping, it should be fine.

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0408d&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P=24966

You may find references to current models spec'ing 3-6 degrees. If you
look at the tubing behind the reefer, the Vanagon models have less
tubing, and it's at a steeper angle than bigger, newer models.

Here's a picture of a newer one:
http://www.rvrefrig.com/images/back.jpg

At 04:36 PM 10/2/2007, Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott wrote...
>So what did you find about Dometic AND level?
>
>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
>
>On 10/2/2007 1:14 PM Richard A Jones wrote:
>
>>I'm a slow learner.  Trying to figure out why the
>>Vanagon list archive search didn't find the messages
>>that had "Dometic" "frig" "fridge" "level" in them--
>>I read the HELP and learned that searching for
>>"Dometic fridge" will only hit on those with the
>>two words "close" together.  To find messages
>>containing two words that may not be close, use
>>"and" as in "Dometic and level"--bingo!
>>
>>After ~15 years on this list, and using the archive
>>search many times, I just learned something new--
>>and important.
>>
>>Richard