fridge installation

Submitted: Sunday, Sep 09, 2012 at 17:57
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Hi all,
over the winter I gave our ancient Newlands van a makeover, including fridge replacement. The old one you could make bread in the cupboard next door it was so hot and things were only just cool enough inside, so out it went for a secondhand Dometic RM2455. After our last trip in 40 degree conditions and complete failure of the old fridge I did a bit of net research to help me with optimal installation, one of the things I found said to connect a couple of laptop fans via a thermal switch to get the hot air exhausting on hot days. It said to use a 70 degree switch and place it on the condensor tube. All done, and we are finally off for a field test next weekend. It occurred to me that I had only run the fridge on each power source for a few minutes to confirm that it worked so today I ran it on gas all afternoon, when I checked it I was surprised to see the fans running. 17 degree air temp, demo beer was drinkable temp, fridge cabinet was slightly warmer than room temp I thought- nothing like the old faithful- the condensor was hot but not burning to touch and my guess would be around the 70 degree mark so my question is the switch in the correct place? If you look from front it is on the left hand side of the condensor at the top turn from where it comes up from the bottom.
Thanks
David
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