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Buffblazer
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Jul 01, 2019

Older fridge cooling Better on 110 than propane

Hello all, hoping for some help before my 4th of July trip I took my 98 Lightcraft truck camper up the mountain this last Friday and when I left the house with the fridge on 110 the temp was 28 de...
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philh
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Jul 05, 2019
ajriding wrote:
Im not disagreeing, I just saying more airflow will cool the fins faster…
What can happen with wrong fan placement is that the air gets turbulent and does not do a good job flowing through the fins.

Flow too fast, there's not enough time for heat transfer. HOWEVER, in our fridges, they depend entirely on convection for heat transfer. A fan can help increase the flow.

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