Excellent answer, Senior Squirrel. So, does one just leave the old
vent on the side of the van and thus avoid the scorn of the "fridge
envious" or should I try and cap that off in some creative way...?

On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Mike Elliott wrote:

> In addition to having to get rid of the heat sucked from your food,
> your old Dometic also had the heat of its gas flame/heater coil to
> get rid of. Your swell new compressor refrigerator still has to get
> rid of food heat, and the motor makes its own heat (though it's a
> lot less than the Dometic's heater!) BUT it's a lot less sensitive
> to ambient temperature than the Dometic (which is not
> constitutionally capable of handling high ambient temps <pause for
> Mark Drillock to object ... no objection so move on>). As a result
> there is less heat to get rid of and less reason to worry about it,
> so the existing cabinet vents are quite adequate. Buts, if one lived
> in a hot clime and would rather that the waste heat not be vented
> into the van's interior, then one could put a 12V fan in the opening
> formerly used to exhaust the former reefer's combustion products and
> just blow that hot air outside.
>
> --
> 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 6/5/2008 1:14 AM Jeffrey Vickers wrote:
>
>> I just got a 12V Isotherm fridge (nearly identical to the Vitrifrigo)
>> and I'm wondering if they need any sort of venting --- like the
>> Dometic --- or will the vent on the back of the fridge/stove cabinet
>> suffice? Also -  if you don't need the old external vent anymore,
>> what
>> have 12V fridge owners done about the vent hole in the side of the
>> van?
>> Jeff / San Anselmo
>