Fridge cooling: coils or fins?
I'm making an extended trip into a hot area, and often my Dometic fridge does not cool adequately. It has no fans at the back to help cooling, and so I'm adding 4 thermostat controlled fans, as well a...
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Chris Bryant wrote:
The top condensor fins are the most critical. The more liquid ammonia you can condense out the more cooling you will have. The absorber coils do reject some heat, but that is not their real function.
The unit should be baffled so that all of the air must pass over the condensor.
Thanks! My fridge does have baffling, but it is focused on the absorber and stops before the condenser fins, so air can indeed avoid the absorber unit. I'll fix that.
