Al,
The gas refrigerator in our 1960 Pacer is installed the way Scott
described. The LP gas burner is vented outside through its own little
chimney, so there are no combustion products in the trailer. But the
heat from the condenser is exhausted inside the trailer through a vent
in the back of the counter over the refrigerator. If you look down
inside the vent you see the cooling fins of the condenser. The drawback
to this, of course, is that it heats up the living space. Free heat in
cooler weather, but you can't turn it off in hot weather without giving
up the gas refrigerator.
I think gas refrigerators in trailers were pretty new back in the late
50's and early 60's when Airstream made these installations; as somebody
pointed out, by the mid-60's they had gone to all-outside venting.
> Used to be that the 115VAC neutral (white) wire was grounded to the RV
> body/chassis/frame. The ground wire (if there was one) was likewise
> connected to the RV chassis/body/frame.
I don't know when they switched away from the old neutral-to-trailer
shell system, but our 1960 model has the modern 3-wire connection with
the green wire to the shell.
Best,
John Sellers
WBCCI/VAC #1587
1960 Pacer
Dayton, OH