Double victory .................. LPG detector, the vacuum trick didn't work so now at home, put it on the bench and gave the sensor unit a good hit with sensor cleaner, working happily now, thats a good few $$ saved while yesterday I picked up a new Holding Tank mechanism for the Thunder Can since the flap bit broke, new flap $29 but when one bit of plastic breaks with these things more are sure to follow so grabbed a whole assembly, $95 and sure enough when I strip down the old unit to salvage some parts I find a couple of screw tabs about to give way .............. carry 2 tanks and its certainly saved a few trips when one has a failure ....
Drovers new Rig - "Big Mal"
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This is why I bang on about doing a proper job on your fridge insulation ..... Happy hour so fridge door has been working with nibblies,wine and beer extraction, it's 32c and my 3 way insulated properly shows that they do a good job when installed properly..something the manufacturers can't manage..... no screen on the outside either as the outer wall is fully insulated...
I have to head home soon...bugga. fridge at 5.9 freezer at -23..... perfect.
I have to head home soon...bugga. fridge at 5.9 freezer at -23..... perfect.
@Drover , it is not the manufacturers of the fringes, it is the fridge/van installers who do NOT install fridges in the vans correctly, and according to the instructions of the manufactures. If installed as per instructions, absorption fridges DO operate as advertised. Yours seem to be operating well in more than 33C ambient temps and the fridge section has only a small operating range of only 2C despite being opened a fair bit!!e. Mine operates similarly too. External fans make a big difference and most of the later models of these fridges have fans both inside to provide even temperatures and prevent freezing the lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber, and eternal fans to remove the heat from back of fridge.
I was referring to the Van Manufacturers not the fridge builders , I have looked quite a few fridges and few seem to be fitted properly, biggest fail is the outer wall insulation usually consists of a 1/2" panel of styro that hardly covers the area, have refurbished about 5 of them so far and they are all running heaps better, my current new job has a fan at the back but like most it only kicks in when ambient is 35c which I reckon is too late my fans at the top fire up when the tubes reach 55/60c forget which , I haven't managed to find a happy position for the internal fan so it stops the ice age on the cool fins........... but the lettuce doesn't freeze so all good....