Ken,

You mean when the sun beats down and drive you inside temp to 90, your
fridge can only manage 55? It may be time for you to overhaul your
refrigerator...I don't know the actual temperatures inside our
refrigerator, but can say that makes ice consistently, summer or winter.  A
couple of key things to keep in mind, though.

Start the refrigerator running the day before you go camping.  When I start
the refrigerator, I load ours with a couple of frozen 2 Liter bottles of
water, to get the interior cooled down fast and cold.

We also have a 12 volt Radio Shack muffin fan mounted in the left rear
quarter directly below the main cooling area of the cooling fins. This
keeps the air moving around the inside of the refrigerator, doing a much
better job at cooling the entire refrigerator.  Whenever our refrigerator
is running, this muffin fan is on as well.

Also, I don't think the cooling capacity of the refrigerator is enough to
actually chill foods or drinks.  We put everything in our refrigerator
already cold.  After a meal, any leftovers are placed in a large zip-lock
bag, then left flat on the table to cool for a while, prior to placing in
the refrigerator.

Hope this helps...instructions on the fridge overhaul are in the
archives...

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree

-----Original Message-----
From:   Ken Korn [SMTP:kkorn@JUMP.NET]
Sent:   Monday, April 26, 1999 3:41 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Dometic Temperature

On our trip last week, we used the fridge on 110, 12V, and propane. All
three
worked BUT......the temp inside would never get more that 30-35 degrees F
below
the outside temp. Is there something wrong or is the Dometic a whimpy
fridge?

Ken Korn
'82 Westy
Austin, TX