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MEXICOWANDERER
Jun 28, 2016Explorer
The BTU DIFFERENTIAL between gas and electric "Says It All" including foot notes and end notes. When an individual is parked 1,600 miles from the US border and running a diesel genset day and night, it is tempting to TRY using an AC heater, rather than driving 116 miles back and forth to Chetumal Q.R. for butane fill ups. My orifice attempts were done on .001 increments. The VELOCITY increase of gas using the original orifice but tweaking the regulator using a manometer revealed a better temperature control of the contents of the refrigerator. Try using 127 vac power down here in the tropics and you will be food poisoned within five days. UNIFORMITY of test results in relationship to a set goal were what you were after. My goal was to keep food from killing me. FOUR REFRIGERATORS Dometic and Norcold (three attempts were new units), plus a full shade palmetto "enramada" were used to try and keep food storage in a safe zone. This was in August of 1988 and hurricane Gilberto disrupted my plan to stay and keep skin diving the Chinchorro reef. I moved out to the Xalak peninsula from the Chetumal beachside RV facility and everyone there was complaining of spoiled food, so they gave up and started eating out. RV gas absorbsion refrigeration has it's limitations and it . does . not . work . well in the tropics. Or do you think it was FUN spending three thousand dollars twenty five years ago for 24 refrigerator and separate freezer. Sheesh! Sal, and crew, at KOOL FUN Irwindale California, sold and rebuilt on site THOUSANDS of cooling units. Yeah he rebuilt the absorbsion units himself, declared non commercial gas absorbsion (meaning RV) to be (and read this carefully) INADEQUATE to maintain food safety in the hot tropics. Not SUB tropics - the real McCoy. I have NEVER experienced this issue with freon units. And nine out of 10 guests in my old RV park complained about food going bad in the door shelves, with NORMAL VOLTAGE supply. They were not happy to have to switch to gas (which helped greatly) but the nearest gas plant was and is at Guacamayas, a 36 mile drive each way.
How much "experience" does a person need to STATE what i just STATED? :)
How much "experience" does a person need to STATE what i just STATED? :)
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