Can I leave the fridge propane on while not in the rv?

Fla904 wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
Do you leave your household fridge on when you go away for the weekend? Electrical fires can happen....

Unless your fridge is has known issues the risk of fire is negligible. As others have said, the consideration is the battery (that was one nice thing with the older mechanical propane fridges. They didn't need the battery to run the electronics)

The previous owner cut the propane lines to be "safe" so I had them re connected who knows how long since all the propane dependent things have been ran. Everything works tho. The rv mechanic found what looked to be a old mouse nest right next to the fridge chimney. We cleared it out tho. But the fridge chimney does get hot which is my concern. I'm sure it's normal. And as far as being away from the rv if it catches fire.. I'd rather be there to stop or prevent a problem than to be away. So I guess il start the fridge about 5hrs before I leave next trip and cut it off when I go to sleep. I don't have any problems driving with it on tho. Just don't want a problem to occur while I am gone.

If you haven't already, get the whole propane system checked out before using it, if the previous owner was doing strange things to it. You don't want to find out what he did by having it blow up when you turn something on.

Once it's checked out and all is good, my previuos advice stands.