Hello, first time Class A RV'ers here! Getting ready for a 8 day trip with our Grandchildren. Opened up our 1997 Coachmen Destiny that we bought last Oct.2015 and upon testing everything, found out the Dometic refridgerator is not powering on electric but is on propane. No time to fix. My question is, how much propane do we have to have in our 100lb tank to sustain our cooling for 8 days?.Any help with this would be much appreciated!Thank you, Tom Virant

3 gallons (12#) would be more than sufficient for the fridge as it uses very little propaneClick HERE for recent topic

ThomasandMaliaVirant wrote:Hello, first time Class A RV'ers here! Getting ready for a 8 day trip with our Grandchildren. Opened up our 1997 Coachmen Destiny that we bought last Oct.2015 and upon testing everything, found out the Dometic refridgerator is not powering on electric but is on propane. No time to fix. My question is, how much propane do we have to have in our 100lb tank to sustain our cooling for 8 days?.Any help with this would be much appreciated!Thank you, Tom Virantyou should be good to go.

It takes very little.And....I find that mine takes a LOT longer to create noticeable cool inside if I start it hot on AC power.YOu do know that the electric side is AC and not 12 V......right ??Which means you must be connected to shore power or have the gen running.

Thank you for your help! Yes we had it plugged into our house electric.Tom Virant

Yes, the refrigerator takes very, very little propane. The furnace gobbles it up. Hope you're going where you don't need the furnace. :)

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Sam_Spade
Explorer
Jun 14, 2016
It takes very little.

And....I find that mine takes a LOT longer to create noticeable cool inside if I start it hot on AC power.

YOu do know that the electric side is AC and not 12 V......right ??
Which means you must be connected to shore power or have the gen running.
rk911
Explorer
Jun 14, 2016
ThomasandMaliaVirant wrote:
Hello, first time Class A RV'ers here! Getting ready for a 8 day trip with our Grandchildren. Opened up our 1997 Coachmen Destiny that we bought last Oct.2015 and upon testing everything, found out the Dometic refridgerator is not powering on electric but is on propane. No time to fix. My question is, how much propane do we have to have in our 100lb tank to sustain our cooling for 8 days?.Any help with this would be much appreciated!
Thank you, Tom Virant

you should be good to go.
Old-Biscuit
Explorer III
Jun 14, 2016
3 gallons (12#) would be more than sufficient for the fridge as it uses very little propane

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