| Re: [GMCnet] What purpose are the refrigerator exterior louvers? [message #190268] |
Wed, 14 November 2012 09:00 |
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Kerry,
I see you've gotten lots of responses. Here's my opinion.
Go out in the coach. Have someone else drive down or up the interstate at 55. Crawl around the cockpit and tell me where you feel a draft. Then, with the coach sitting still and the temp outside at 30 F, feel around the windows and then around the refrigerator. Tell me where you feel a draft. I think you'll find that the louvers for providing circulation to the coils is the very least of your concerns. Unless you have honeycomb shades and good fitting valances with the bottom closed off you're going to get more cool air than you imagine. Shuck, the original sprayed on foam only has an R factor of about 2. The lovers for the rear of the refrigerator, as I pointed out, is at the bottom of the list. Worry about other stuff like the holes in the firewall that you can't see but the force of air knows is there. For that reason I always drove wearing boots and a blanket across my lap as though I were driving a Model T back in the day.
Byron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerry Pinkerton <Pinkertonk@MCHSI.com>
> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> Date: 11/13/12 14:12
> Subject: [GMCnet] What purpose are the refrigerator exterior louvers?
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> I understand that there is some heat generated by the coils but only in the summer is that a problem. The rest of the year it's 'free' heat.
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> I'd think that we could cover the louvers from the inside of the panel to keep the cold air out. During the summer, just uncover them.
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> Am I missing something?
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> Kerry Pinkerton
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> North Alabama, near Huntsville,
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> 77 Eleganza II, "The Lady", 403CI, also a 76 Eleganza being re-bodied as an Art Deco car hauler
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