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qchunter
Apr 24, 2015Explorer
SoundGuy wrote:qchunter wrote:
I currently store my trailer at my house and the day before we head out camping i plug in the trailer and turn on the fridge using shore power. I put a frozen 1 gallon water jug in the fridge and a frozen 1 liter water bottle in the freezer and both are ready the next morning for food.
The question I have in response would be - WHY are you bothering with all this? :h I've owned a number of trailers with a number of different gas absorption fridges and although the smaller 3-way versions commonly found in popup trailers can take quite awhile to cool any larger 6 cu ft 2-way fridge / freezer model I've owned begins to cool immediately and has always been cooled enough within just a few short hours that I can begin loading food into it. My current fridge is a Dometic DM2652 and if I turn it on at say 8am on the day we're leaving to head out on a camping trip it will have noticeably cooled by 10am and be totally ready for use no later than noon ... how much quicker than that do you need your fridge to cool?! If it doesn't I'd suggest there's something amiss with the unit you have.
I guess I should see how quick the fridge actually cools down. I've heard others say they plug in the trailers for a day to get the fridge cold. I've owned the trailer for a year now and have always been plugging it in the day before and throw the frozen water jugs in. Then i would check it a little while later just to make sure it was cooling down. I just figured it took half a day or so to get cold.
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