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Subject:Re: Propane and refrigerator success
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Sun, 28 Jun 2015 07:56:56 -0700

Yes but it's a quiet person jammed in behind the fridge.

It gets stoinking hot back there, flue is hot, fins are hot...

Maybe insulating the flue, didn't Neil do that?

Alistair

> On Jun 28, 2015, at 7:54 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>
> At 10:13 AM 6/28/2015, Jim Felder wrote:
>> Right, I never think about it unless I'm camping and can't do anything
>> about it, but if that little flame was to be outside the living space like
>> it is on RV, by means of a louvered panel or something like what you have
>> done, it would have to be somewhat cooler inside.
>
> The 85 watt heater is about 300 BTU/hr, or about half a quiet
> person.  The flame was quoted to me on the phone by a Dometic tech
> years ago as 650 BTU/hr, or a whole person -- but the great bulk of
> that extra goes out the flue.
>
> Yrs,
> d