dougrainer wrote:
MitchF150 wrote:
Yes, you want to keep the baffle in place, but you do need some fans to push/pull the hot air out. Here is my setup in my slide placed Dometic fridge.
I had to add this myself. It gets **** hot up there and the fans push/pull out a lot of that heat for sure... A lot more then when the fans are off.
These have a temp sensor on them and when set on "auto" will run as needed depending on the temps.
I run my fridge on gas when it gets hot out. Just seems to recover quicker than on electric.
At night, I'll switch to electric just because it never gets opened while we are sleeping.. :)
It's working for me. Sitting here in Eastern WA and it's only in the mid 80's right now, but those fans are pumping out the heat and the fridge is nice and cool... Well, the beer is very cold and that's the important thing! :)
Going to be in the mid/upper 90's tomorrow....
Mitch
On this install, that wood panel the blue foam and fans are attached too----Can that top wood panel move UP another 2 or 3 inches? If so, you will get MORE air THRU the fins. Right now, you are really pulling the air BEFORE it has a chance to go THRU the fins to remove the heat.
Hi Doug. The pic is deceiving, in that there is at least 2" of space above where the fins are located even thou it does not look like it in the pic.
I checked this after your post and it does not look like there is much I can make that space more. but, thanks for the comment and letting me know to look for that.
It actually cools very well with the fan setup when it's dang hot outside and the sun beating full on that side of the trailer!
I have found that I do need to put some 'insulation' between the side wall part of it on the inside of the slide, as the inside panel on the slide gets VERY HOT.. I put up some cardboard as a buffer for the weekend trip and that made a HUGE difference, so I will be fabbing up a more permanent insulating solution before the next trip.
Might post up some pics of that if I can remember to do that! ha, ha!
Mitch