Auto locking refrigerator?

rvit wrote:
I just read that Dometic refrigerators automatically lock when you turn the ignition on. Is this required by law? Can you get around it? Being from NH (live free or die) and after hearing the TV won't work while moving, I'm losing interest in this whole idea.

Never have heard of such a thing.. My Dometic has a mechinical LATCH that automatically "Locks" it when I close the door.. but you just push the latch release button.

No ignition interlock of any kind on the fridge.

Ignition interlocks on:
The Television (IG on TV off)

Steps: IG on, "Override" off so step follows door if it feels like it

Awning: Likewise it is supposed to auto retract to prevent a Robin Williams, alas, does not work that way

Jacks: Will not EXTEND with ignition OFF and should auto-retract if parking brake released or taken out of PARK with ignition ON. (That too has failed, but that's another story)

Also on the house/dash radios.. Ignition on (or Acc) the DASH radio is connected to the speakers... Else, it's the house radio/home theater.

That interlock drove me crazy for about 2 years... Turns out one of the connections (Dash) had not been properly connected so the radio would cut out when I hit a bump.. After searching and searching I finally pressed on a MOLEX connector on the relay box.. heard a CLICK (As the lock tabs latched home) and ... Suddenly it works properly.