Thursday, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:07
Hi Tricatic
Read you first question to, and while I keep fridge in car
its lower down and in car centre not in back and so gets less heat.
Mine would never come close to flattening my only battery in a six
hour period, and it has its inbuilt low volts cut out anyway.
Many do have fridge in rear of wagons and its got to be the worse and hottest
place and I am wondering if you might not be better off to approach the problem
form the point of view of reducing heat build up inside the car rather than
effectivily using more
battery power.
While there's lots of traditional ways to reduce heat buildup I'll
outline a different approach which might seem odd at first but works
well.
I use little stick on plastic weathershields which allow windows to be
left down a little and which keep out rain without compromising security to much.
While this is useful, like those window mounted solar exhaust fans you really
need cooler air to flow in from lower down to get best effect.
A solution is to leave my cars big back doors open just a little
(1 inch), this provides a massive relief for hot air as it flows thru
car and out the windows mostly.
In my car its easy to fit a little bit of chain and lock from door catch
which limits the door opening to just a crack.
This prinicple is very effective in letting air flow thru the car whilst
providing security.
(actually did it to guarantee fresh air when sleeping in back of our Patrol)
Robin Miller
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