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Subject:Re: Idea for A/C and camping
From:Otmar Ebenhoech
Date:Fri, 19 Jun 1998 18:12:21 -0700

>How about taking the working parts of a fridge, rigging it to mount in on
>of the sliding windows(above the stove, close to the propane) so that the
>cold part is inside and the warm part is outside?  Rig a fan to blow over
>the cooling fins, and you've got a good AC unit that runs on propane and
>doesn't drain your battery (except for the blower, which could run off a
>solar panel).  I think this would work great.  Maybe I'll even start
>scouring the junkyards in search of an old fridge.
>
>Craig

Sorry, Propane fridges do about 50 Watts of cooling. AC does about 5000 Watts.

 -Otmar-
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