Adding cooling fan to refrigerator?
Our Dometic frig is the two door stile. It is in a slide out so it has a outside vent high and low. Inside the exterior wall and behind the frig at mid heigth are two cooling fans that come on when ...
Forum Discussion
beemerphile1 wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
...With the temps in the 90's and the frig on 4 the frig temp has ranged from 36 to 38!
The factory fans have only come on when the temps are in the mid to upper 90's.
With the continuous fan running the temp has stayed at a steady 36 when the temps are in the 80's or lower.
I had a similar situation with my pop up. See the cooling fins behind the single fan? Your problem is the air goes around those fins rather than through them.
I bent some aluminum stock to make baffles at the lower opening and the upper opening. Now all the air is forced to travel through the cooling fins and over the tubes rather than around them. I also installed two fans but have found them unneeded except for in the very hottest weather. Previously the refrigerator was about useless even in mild temperatures.
Yes diverting the air closer to the finns would be even better. By closing off the voids around the two factory fans the air comes up thru the two fan openings and does pass the fins then out the fan I added. I could have accomplished the same thing by just having the factory fans run all the time but they are noiser than the fan I added.
Bottom line it really works great!
