

| Subject: | RE: [VANAGON] Another dometic question-does size mat ter? |
| From: | Stuart MacMillan |
| Date: | Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:00:13 -0700 |
I can't believe no one has stated the obvious: Size always matters! ;-0 Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jim Felder Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:10 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Another dometic question�does size matter? 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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