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• Re: Trying to light fridge!
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:40:07 -0700
  ...Trying to light fridge! > > I am having a problem trying to light the fridge on my '85 Westy. Just for > some background, I have...
• Re: Fridge capacity?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:31:33 -0400
  ...Any ideas what kind of capacity our fridge is rated for? In litres or cubic feet I guess? Just trying to compare - need to...
• Re: Westy fridge efficiency in 12v mode
  Historical mailing list - Craig Standley
  Wed, 27 May 1998 10:46:47 -0700
  Another trick to get more out of your 12V fridge is to freeze some water at home, maybe in a shallow tupperware container (watch...
• Problem with fridge on 12V
  Historical mailing list - Gilles Turmel
  Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:23:36 -0400
  Hi, When I use my fridge on 12V from my aux battery while that battery is being charge by my alternator the fuse on...
• Re: Running fridge with an aux battery
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:37:05 -0700
  ...Running fridge with an aux battery > > Bill: > > > > Yes - I think you are absolutely correct - the fridge draws more amps than > > the wire from the...
• Re: Dometic Fan
  Historical mailing list - FRANK CONDELLI
  Wed, 31 Jul 2019 03:37:18 -0400
  ...It isn't a fix for fridges that aren't already > working well, it just lets well working fridges do better in hotter > weather...
• Re: Fridge Kaput?
  Historical mailing list - Puzerewski
  Wed, 14 Jun 2000 04:50:42 -0400
  ...Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:27 PM Subject: [VANAGON] Fridge Kaput? > Bill, > Thanks for answering me back so fast. Yes, I know that the...
• Re: Dometic Improvements Adding Fans
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:55:34 -0700
  ...I visualized the airflow path (under the fridge, up the back of the fridge through 2 sets of cooling fins, and then out from...
• Re: Dometic 182B wiring
  Historical mailing list - David Bjorkman
  Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:23:22 -0500
  ...arial; COLOR: #000000">What diagram are you referring to, the one on top of the fridge or one<BR>somewhere else?<BR><BR>Based...
• Re: Refrigerator Madness
  Historical mailing list - James Cook
  Mon, 2 May 1994 20:41:47 -0700 (PDT)
  On Mon, 2 May 1994 derekdrew@aol.com wrote: > It usually does not work when I blow air *in* to the fridge drain tube...
• Re: Fridge on DC power
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:49:29 -0700
  yeah, the temp differential works well up here in the PNW about 363/365ths of the year to freeze things in the fridge :) Don...
• Re: camper primer
  Historical mailing list - Charles Michaux.
  Wed, 2 Oct 1996 21:26:46 -0400
  David, My propane tank last for 10+ days only running the fridge. The aux battery will only run the fridge for about 3 hrs...
• Re: Wiring for 85 fridge / water LED panel needed
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:04:38 -0700
  ...Mark Vanagon wrote: >Hi volks, > >I have an 85 fridge panel and want to use it to let me know when the fridge >is...
• Re: 12V fridge necessary?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:35:36 -0500
  I've used the fridge on 12 volts while underway but never at a campsite. Mike Jeffrey Vickers wrote: > My aux battery plan calls...
• Re: Mod keeps your fridge lit while driving.
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:50:35 EDT
  ...The fridge combustion chamber is sealed. As long as the fridge is turned off before pulling into fuel stations, I believe the risks are...
• Dometic fridge cooling fan thermoswitch question
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 9 Sep 2014 19:45:07 -0700
  Troubleshooting a friends fridge and wondering if anyone knows the close and open temperature values of the thermo switch that controls the fin cooling...
• Re: Fridge go POOF!
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 4 Jul 2013 21:48:48 -0400
  At 09:44 PM 7/4/2013, Jeff Palmer wrote: >trying to light fridge. Thought I heard a poof? Stopped >trying! Any damage? No...
• Re: mystery fan running
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:37 -0600 (MDT)
  Harry- Sure it's not the fridge cooling fan? (Try unplugging the white three-prong connector that hangs around inside the cabinet to the...
• Instructions for fridge removal
  Historical mailing list - Bryan Feddish
  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 09:47:08 -0400
  ...to get being the fridge to do some maintenance? Thanks, Bryan
• Re: Indicator light (fridge propane)
  Historical mailing list - Blaine Bachman
  Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:05:48 -0400
  ...Here's a link to my site describing the other fridge mods I have done. -Blaine, Albuquerque
• Re: Brighter Fridge LED (revisited)
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 18 May 2004 12:59:55 -0400
  When I was looking for the blue LED for my fridge, I found 6 out of 7 Radio Shacks didn't have it. the...
• Re: East coast rust
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:44:31 -0500
  ...Why did you leave the one for the fridge vent when you have that other fridge?
• Re: Fridge again
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:25:14 -0400
  ...ABOVE the fridge there is an LED panel which has water level and battery level indicated on LEDs. In some models there is an...
• Dometic 182 B Fridge- Ad Nauseum
  Historical mailing list - Melissa Mourkas
  Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:11:11 -0700
  Volks- The OE Dometic 182B fridge was pulled from the van, cleaned & serviced this week. Ran super COLD at the shop on propane. I...
• Re: My Westy fridge -- may be the worst!
  Historical mailing list - Rubatoguy
  Mon, 24 May 1999 21:28:48 -0700
  ...Nobody has posted how HOT the fridge can get the inside of the van. I had the van parked in 80-degree sunshine and...
• refrigerator removal and fan upgrades?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:53:31 -0800
  Hey all, In preparation for the upcoming hot summer camping days I need to get the fridge in the westy working at peak efficiency...
• Fridge Fan: Re: Dometic-CAN't find it in the book
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Tue, 30 May 2006 14:52:53 -0700
  ...However, separately the fan in the back of the fridge will run if the ambient temperatures are high enough (regardless of whether the fridge...
• Re: Fridge- last problem before our trip.
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 5 Jul 2013 20:30:20 -0400
  ...I >know the aux battery powers the fridge. When I got the van, there >was some creative wiring, and then I added a Yandina...
• Re: fridge problems
  Historical mailing list - Dave Vickery
  Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:27:23 +0000
  ...If you can't get it lit, it could be the fridge or it could be 'pilot' error. Once someone showed me how to...
• Dometic Fridge Electronic Ignition not working - resolved
  Historical mailing list - Dennis
  Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:17:14 -0400
  The original problem posed in this thread was my fridge LED, turning on, but not blinking, and no audible spark igniting the propane burner...
• Dometic Camper fridges
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Czerniak
  Mon, 22 Apr 96 01:12:10 UT
  Does anyone have any info on Dometic type fridges? Specifically details on how they operate, how to perform maintainence, schematics.etc...I'm having...
• Re: Westy Fridge Project
  Historical mailing list - kW
  Fri, 21 May 1999 00:19:45 -0700
  Howdy, The westy fridge continues to grind away. Today at 5:00 pm the ambient temperature in the shade was 80 F. The fridge...
• Re: New ThinkGeek fridge
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:23:02 -0700
  What I'd really like is a fridge that fits between the front seats and has cup holders on top. And cheap of course...
• Fridge igniter doesn't
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 21 Nov 1994 23:46:19 -0800
  ...Westy 3-Way Fridge Questions >Message-ID: <199411210249.TAA28022@bud.indirect.com> > > >Anyway, I got it back and figured now I could try out...
• Re: Dometic Temps
  Historical mailing list - Joe L.
  Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:17:35 -0400
  I have heard of fridges with performance like yours but they are very much the exception. Unless things have changed drastically since the blossoming...
• Re: Phunky Phridge Smells
  Historical mailing list - Chris Smith
  Tue, 2 May 2000 08:29:28 -0500
  ...The bleach solution works great, but be sure to get every surface in the fridge, and also be sure to let the fridge dry...
• The fridge fired up! YES!!! (and I tell you how... ;-)
  Historical mailing list - Jutta & Christian Knust
  Sun, 20 May 2001 06:35:52 +0200
  Well, the previous owner of our 87 Westy just about never fired the fridge up but used electricity only. As obviously lots of other...
• Re: fridge wont stay lit
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:22:16 -0500
  > > > If the fridge is going out when you are driving, then you have an air > leak between the vent and the body of the...
• Re: Trying to light fridge!
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:55:17 -0700
  ...Trying to light fridge! > I am having a problem trying to light the fridge on my '85 Westy. Just for > some background, I have...
• Re: House Battery Low Voltage Cut-out switch
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 9 Apr 2006 07:34:38 -0400
  ...You will probably find that since that fridge is a heavy draw, (~7-8 amps) that this device will trip fairly quickly. At best...
• Re: dometic preformance, was Re: Kitchen out; Any suggestions?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:03:47 -0700
  I never seem to get the fridge "that" cold on 110 ac. Maybe my heater element is weak, dunno. We do freeze some of...
• Trying to light fridge!
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:28:47 -0400
  I am having a problem trying to light the fridge on my '85 Westy. Just for some background, I have spent alot of time...
• Re: pre-tour trip
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Wed, 30 Nov 94 11:12:44 PST
  So Thom Sneak-in-the-fridge-trick Fitzpatrick says: > > People, > > Howdy! Ok, I'll be able to go. I'll be riding down with...
• Wolfsburg Weekender Fridge
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:00:41 -0700
  ...Where, exactly, was the factory 12v/110v fridge mounted inside the Wolfsburg Weekenders? I've scoured the 'net and the list archive, but to...
• One step closer to a Vitrifrigo
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:29:10 -0500
  OK, I saw an actual Vitrifrigo fridge in person last fall in Ed's van. It was kind of one of those things where...
• Re: 3 Dometic Fridges: FREE. You Pick Up. Vancouver BC
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 24 May 2013 23:14:46 -0700
  ...As of now, the fridges are spoken for. If that status changes, I'll post again. Thanks for the interest! Neil. On Fri, May...
• dometic preformance, was Re: Kitchen out; Any suggestions?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:38:06 -0700
  There is a ton, a metric ton, a butt-load, of fridge info in the archives. Neil (tubaneil) has done a lot of recent...
• Lighting the Fridge - What I did wrong
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Luft
  Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:38:40 -0400
  Took many attempts to start-up the fridge last night. In the end I had to kick myself....... because I had the gas knob...
• Re: Mod keeps your fridge lit while driving.
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:38:47 -0600
  > While I don't doubt the fridge is SUPPOSED TO stop running on battery > when the engine is off, mine does not. Ask me...
• GoWesty fridge fan report
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 9 Jun 2015 16:14:26 -0500
  ...Very easy to install with the fridge out of course. A nice cheap upgrade to the original. Jim
• Re: Westy fridge efficiency in 12v mode
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Merrill
  Wed, 27 May 1998 11:01:21 -0700
  Why does it sound like so many of you don't use your propane fridge unless you are stopped? I mostly run mine continuously...
• Fridge vent cover
  Historical mailing list - Ron Mighton
  Tue, 9 May 2000 21:16:10 -0400
  Any margarine container that is exactly 5" across the top fits the fridge vent perfectly if you want to cover it for winter storage...
• Optima's and Fridge
  Historical mailing list - Wes Ullrich
  Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:47:39 -0500
  Has anyone run their fridge off of a optima deep cycle? If so, how long will it run? Can you wire the optima into...
• Re: Fridge....should it stay on...
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 25 May 2005 23:00:10 -0500
  ...The only thing that every got spoiled in my westy fridge was ME. I do drive with it on 12v cause I can't...
• Re: Westfalia instrument panel.
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:14:11 -0500
  My panel has 4 LED's for the water level which always made me think the bottom one was supposed to be the Fridge...
• Re: Fridge not working off battery
  Historical mailing list - Denis Mezihorak
  Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:23:43 -0700
  ...How good is your battery? Most likely fridge is drawing too much current to be supported by your battery/alternator. Charge up your battery...
• Re: removing the fridge
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:46:39 EDT
  ...I was expecting to discover the "easy way" to remove > the fridge. Didn't discover it. Is there a way to remove the fridge...
• permanent fridge damage
  Historical mailing list - Jason Willenbrock
  Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:47:10 -0400
  has anyone really damaged their fridges by running it at an angle while camping or whatever? reason i ask is because yesterday at work...
• Camper cabinets
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Sat, 23 Dec 1995 07:21:30 -0800 (PST)
  ...The guy said it was an > electric fridge unit and showed me a control panel which looked to be > a battery gauge and a...
• Vanagon fire
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:07:49 -0400
  ...I decided to fire up the fridge to provide some cool beverages during the upcoming weekend's activities. For some reason it was being...