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From:Jim Felder
Date:Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:09:55 -0500

Another observation I forgot to mention, that must be insulation-related:
if the sun changes to hit the front of the fridge door, I see an almost
immediate bump in inside fridge temperature.

Jim

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Soooo, has anyone explored opening and reinsulating one of these things?
> Even externally (meaning the inside of the pantry, the right sides of the
> cabinets to the left, the top, bottom and backs with a high quality
> insulation? Is it possible to get the cabinet open? I don't see how it
> would be, having had the thing out several times, but I haven't
> specifically looked for how to do so, either.
>
> My fridge does about that on AC, but won't pull a 40� F delta on propane,
> especially as the temps get higher and higher the delta gets smaller.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:39 PM, george jannini <georgejoann@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>    Insulation- you must be joking.  A nice hot propane burner right
>> underneath the box ain't exactly a help, either.
>>
>>    Incidentally, my fridge has been running on AC for a couple of days,
>> box
>> empty, van closed up (mostly).  At the moment it's around 82 degF inside
>> the bus and  39 degF inside.
>>
>> Geo/ATL
>>
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