Residential Fridge install question

I wasn't born yet and they taught us no such thing in school. Glad to someone knew about the reference.

Bill.Satellite wrote:

Planning wrote:

samert wrote:
Normally it drains into a pan and then the water just evaporates from the compressor heat.

Occam's Razor baby!

If you were as lost as I was, here's a definition from Wikipedia.

Lost? I learned that in fourth grade in the 50's.

UhHuh! :B
Barney

Planning wrote:

samert wrote:
Normally it drains into a pan and then the water just evaporates from the compressor heat.

Occam's Razor baby!

If you were as lost as I was, here's a definition from Wikipedia.

Occam's razor (also Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae "law of parsimony") is the problem-solving principle that, when presented with competing hypothetical answers to a problem, one should select the one that makes the fewest assumptions. The idea is attributed to William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), who was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.

In science, Occam's razor is used as a heuristic guide in the development of theoretical models, rather than as a rigorous arbiter between candidate models. In the scientific method, Occam's razor is not considered an irrefutable principle of logic or a scientific result; the preference for simplicity in the scientific method is based on the falsifiability criterion. For each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there may be an extremely large, perhaps even incomprehensible, number of possible and more complex alternatives. Since one can always burden failing explanations with ad hoc hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified, simpler theories are preferable to more complex ones because they are more testable.

samert wrote:
Normally it drains into a pan and then the water just evaporates from the compressor heat.

Occam's Razor baby!

I have had mine draining into the pan for 18 years and it still works just fine! There is nothing wrong with doing as you suggest either, however.

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions based on what you've done. I think I'm going to leave the roof vent open for now and put some foam insulation over the access door but leave the door functional in case I need to get in there for any reason.

Another question I have is what others have done with the freezer defrost drain hose? Normally it drains into a pan and then the water just evaporates from the compressor heat. I have a hose fitting from the old fridge that drains into the grey water tank so I'm thinking of removing the current drain hose flapper valve and connect the hose to the fitting that dumps into the grey holding tank.

I prefer not to have that extra heat inside the coach so I left the roof vent operational.

I sealed my roof vent with great stuff foam. Took off the cover. foamed it in, then cut off extra foam and reinstalled cover. I also made sure my fridge got air flow from the bottom through the cabinets and then I added a vent inside above it. Air now comes into the fridge cabinet at the bottom and vents out the top into the RV. I sealed my old fridge side vent with a marine type hatch door.

I sealed up the outside side vent but left the roof vent open. I have camped in temps below 0 at night and not above freezing for weeks at a time and I have had no issues with the cold causing problems. Even with an exposed water line for the ice maker it stays plenty warm back there to keep things above freezing. How your coach is setup and insulated could certainly effect your results. My fridge has coils on the bottom under the fridge and I have a couple of inches clearance at the back and maybe an inch or so on each side. There is also a bit of clearance at the top but there is a wooden support that closes all but a bit of this off to air circulation so air is forced to go in the front under the fridge and out the back with no where else to go but up.