Page 7 - Dometic RM Series Refrigerators Service Manual

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Special hints
The refrigerator must be installed in a sub-
stantial enclosure and must be level. A
spirit Level is supplied with each refriger-
ator and by placing it in the freezer com-
partment the refrigerator can be leveled
both ways front to back and side to side.
When installing the refrigerator in the
enclosure, care should be taken to ensure a
complete sealing between the front frame of
the refrigerator and the top, sides and
bottom of the enclosure, For this purpose a
length of sealing strip is delivered with
each refrigerator. The sealing strips should
be applied to the rear surfaces of the front
frame of the refrigerator. See fig, 2.
(RM24 is supplied with this sealing already
fitted on the front frame of the refriger-
ator).

Be careful not to damage the sealing strip
applied to the bottom of the enclosure when
the refrigerator is put in place.

Any space between the counter or storage
area and the top of the refrigerator must
be blocked. The heat produced at the rear Fig. 2
of the refrigerator will otherwise become
trapped in this space making the top of
the refrigerator hot and reducing the
efficiency of the refrigerator,

Approved installations

Approved installations require one roof vent and one lower side vent
as optional, one upper side vent and one lower side vent, as shown in
the figures 4, 5 and 6.

Kit No. 1 comprising: Upper side vent (Dometic 123)

Lower side vent (Dometic 183)

Kit No. 2 comprising: Upper side vent (Dometic RM122)
Lower side vent (Dometic RM2217)

Kit No. 3 comprising: Roof vent (Dometic V 2019)

Lower side vent (Dometic RM2217)