Dometic WA 300 winter cover for fridge vent grille

Description

Condition: lightly used, good

Colour: white

Dometic WA 300 winter cover fits over the external ventilation grille of a motorhome fridge, and its main purpose is to limit cold outside air reaching the back of the absorption fridge.

An absorption fridge needs the right temperature range behind it in order to work normally.

In very cold weather, too strong a flow of cold air can actually impair the operation of the cooling system.

Dometic generally recommends using the winter cover when the outside temperature drops below about +10 °C.

The cover also serves two other practical purposes:

• it reduces the amount of cold wind, snow and dirt getting in behind the fridge;
• Dometic also recommends using the cover when the motorhome is parked for a longer period or when the vehicle is being washed on the outside.

An important point is which fridge you have and whether you use gas.

With some Dometic fridges, when running on gas you must not cover both ventilation openings completely with the winter cover, because the combustion gases and the heat produced must be able to escape.

For the RM10, for example, Dometic says: in 230 V / 12 V mode both covers can be used, but in gas or automatic mode only the lower one. Dometic Support