QFour
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They really are a load of crap. The Carthago did have one until today when it suddenly found itself sitting on the driveway. Why has he taken a brand new oven out of a brand new motorhome you may well ask. It sat below the sink with a drawer above for cutlery. When you used the oven everything above it got very very hot. Who designs these things. How can they make something that is hotter on the outside than the inside. When we realised the damage that was being done we decided to do what the rest of Europe does and don't bother with it. We had a Laika before the Carthago and that had a similar oven on top of the fridge / freezer but it had a exhaust through the roof. The cupboard above it got very hot. At one point it was getting far hotter than usual and I took the back out of the cupboard to have a look. The chimney was stuck to the oven with fire cement and the heating and cooling had turned it into powder. Most of it went up the vacuum cleaner hose.
I had a look on the Internet for alternatives but Dometic are the only company that make one so why should they bother about its performance. They rely on the wooden cabinet cabinet that surrounds it to keep the heat in. I was tempted to try and do something with insulation but where do you start when the basic concept is floored before you begin. Because the unit does not have a flue the hot gasses come out of a vent above the door. You can imagine the heat generated by a 1kw gas burner. Within 10 minutes of lighting it up the back of the casing is to hot to touch. This then spreads to the top of the oven so all it does is just heats everything up.
You will also notice that by setting the oven back all the heat from the vent just goes upwards and destroys the drawer front. Factory solution is to move the oven forward 15mm. Personally I think my idea is better. We just need a drawer front now to complete the conversion but with Covid we may have to wait a bit for the factory to make one.
I suppose we could have rejected the Motorhome but apart from this it is really great and we are enjoying our times away.
SWMBO has her eyes on a 2 litre Remoska which uses 400w so we could use it off the inverter.
One thing that really gets me is we have two Neff ovens at home that are self cleaning and they get upto 500 degrees on the cleaning cycle and the cupboard they live in hardly gets warm.
Moan over ....
I had a look on the Internet for alternatives but Dometic are the only company that make one so why should they bother about its performance. They rely on the wooden cabinet cabinet that surrounds it to keep the heat in. I was tempted to try and do something with insulation but where do you start when the basic concept is floored before you begin. Because the unit does not have a flue the hot gasses come out of a vent above the door. You can imagine the heat generated by a 1kw gas burner. Within 10 minutes of lighting it up the back of the casing is to hot to touch. This then spreads to the top of the oven so all it does is just heats everything up.
You will also notice that by setting the oven back all the heat from the vent just goes upwards and destroys the drawer front. Factory solution is to move the oven forward 15mm. Personally I think my idea is better. We just need a drawer front now to complete the conversion but with Covid we may have to wait a bit for the factory to make one.
I suppose we could have rejected the Motorhome but apart from this it is really great and we are enjoying our times away.
SWMBO has her eyes on a 2 litre Remoska which uses 400w so we could use it off the inverter.
One thing that really gets me is we have two Neff ovens at home that are self cleaning and they get upto 500 degrees on the cleaning cycle and the cupboard they live in hardly gets warm.
Moan over ....
