RV Residential Refrigerators
The class A group probably has more experience with this, since the Resi-refers are just now coming to the trailer industry. I am wondering if there are any consistent problems with having this type o...
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bigdisplay wrote:John & Angela wrote:bigdisplay wrote:. Well, I don't know enough about the thermal thingy to draw any conclusions but when we swapped out our norcold 1200 for our residential there was LOTS of charred wood and heat shield behind the unit. Just sayin.....
people must have the thermo shut down system installed and also be aware if your Norcold fridge quits cooling don't keep trying to run it
obviously "IF" the picture showing the fire is caused by a Norcold it was because he never had the shut off device installed and kept running the fridge even though it was not cooling
if you had charred(burnt black wood) then two/three things come to mind.The fridge heat (chimney) flue insulation was inadequately installed .That pipe gets several hundred degrees(hot)
Also maybe It was not cooling properly and you keep turning up the stat and letting it run hoping it would somehow start cooling
it may have possibly had blockage
I think we did turn it up a bit as we were in Vegas so we are probably guilty on that one. Re the insulation, I just don't know but it was that corner. Whatever the case, they are just too finicky for me. One of our experienced RV friends said that running RV fridges properly is an art. I guess I'm just not an artist. :). Our whirlpool just needs to be plugged in. Doesn't care about level or ambient temperature. Residentials are not the answer for every RV application but I predict they will become major players in the RV world over the next decade.
