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Subject:Re: Mini Fridge
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:33:26 -0700

time to trot out my old data on my fridge performance?

http://shufti.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/westy-dometic-fridge-performance/

alistair

On 2013-06-10, at 6:25 PM, Jim Felder wrote:

> Right. I recently got back from a week on the Gulf Coast. 90-100 degrees.
> Food did fine.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:12 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, this is simply not the case. We have camped many times for a week
>> or more in 90-100 degree weather and kept our food including milk fresh
>> for up to a week. That is with 4 different Dometic RM182 over the the
>> last 20 years in various vans. You do have to be smart about how you use
>> the things.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> Karl Wolz wrote:
>>
>>> McNeely,
>>> The Dometic, according to its own specs, is good for about a 30 degree
>>> drop.  That's marginally adequate in 70 degree weather (like in the Black
>>> Forest), but not so good in about 45 of our states this time of year.  I
>>> installed extra fans inside and out after cleaning and resealing the
>>> firebox, etc. before taking it out and gaining much storage space.
>>>
>>>
>>>