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Subject:Re: Mini Fridge
From:Jeff Palmer
Date:Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:36:40 -0500

Impressive!  Am i reading that right?  After three hours, solely on propane, hardly any change in interior temperature, and you're almost at freezing?  Any tips?  Interior fan to circulate air or something?

I can get that kind of cooling with shore power but propane takes longer - or so I assume since i haven't kept track like you did :)  And I never use 12V.

Jeff

On 2013-06-10, at 8:33 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:

> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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