Special shade for fridge vent area??

Just to give a possible idea of attaching a shade cover, he used flexible panels over windows but same concept.

https://youtu.be/Al8rCydNiLs

Itinerant, that video was useful, especially because they used suction cups. I happen to have a couple of very powerful suction cups from Harbor Freight that will stick well to my fiberglass exterior. So this should be a fairly easy project. We'll see.

profdant139 wrote:
enblethen, I have installed a deflector to channel the airflow -- it seems to work fine. And Mr. Wizard, the problem is that on my rig, there is a lower intake air vent, and the burner assembly is above that, and the coils are above that, and the upper vent is at the top of the stack.

So the problem is that the sun beats on the sidewall of the trailer, heating the coils.

Shade cloth could do the trick, if I could figure out how to suspend it so that it hangs down in the right place.

the sun beats on the sidewall of 'almost' all rv fridges
some part of the day, including mine

another reason awnings are important

like i said shading the vent won't help much
shading the wall will help

There are many people with frig in slides having problems because of the sun shining on the side of the rv, especially when it's afternoon sun. One of the rvers here built a shade with pvc and suncloth. Because they live here, they have it fastened to the top of the slide - it goes out about 6" and drops to the ground where there is a pole holding the bottom of the suncloth. They did have to do some sewing of seams - kind of like curtains only with a pockets for the rod (pvc) both top and bottom. It has helped enough that their frig is now in acceptable temperature range for food storage - they said about 14 deg cooler.

Wiring a 12v computer fan in the bottom vent to push air up through the cooling stack seems like a easier solution with a much bigger chance of giving improved frig performance. I did this on a frig once to fix a frig that was struggling to stay cold on summer days. Another helpful mod is to make some baffling out if aluminum foil wrapped cardboard to eliminate dead air space and direct tree he airflow of the fan better. Just a couple ideas to consider. Good luck.

I have an idea ------not sure if it will help.
Use 2 inch wide Heating and Air stick on tape on the louvers where the sun hits. Clicky

Those rigs with the fridges in the slides seem to all have issues! I have looked at several and the problems all seem to happen when they are facing the Sun.
The Top vent is identical to the bottom one which means that as the hot air rises in the space between the wall and the back of the Fridge it has to flow up then over and down in order to exit!

I’m no rocket scientist ,but that is just plain stupid engineering.

Even with the fans installed the design of that vent doesn’t work efficiently!