Are there any tricks to rapidly cool the refrigerator in a trailer that has been sitting? 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. I have been thinking about storing my trailer near where i usually camp to save me from pulling it up the mountains. I am thinking i will not have my fridge to use if i do this as it will take too long to cool off so i will be back to using coolers. Are there any tricks to cooling down the fridge?

Absorption fridges are slow to start the process............First have to heat up the perk tube which then has to heat the coolant up enough for ammonia to turn to vapor then ammonia has to condense into a cold liquid which has to absorb the heat from freezer section......by then not much absorption available for food section.Then coolant flows back down to absorber section and back to perk tube.As freezer gets colder and colder more cooling effect can take place in food section.So placing frozen gallon water bottles in fridge can help.....time is needed typically 8-12 hrs for cool fridge.

A little dry ice will tide you over

As long as your food is all cold as you start the fridge it should be fine.If you get some solar (200w?) you could just let the fridge run on propane in storage.

As long as you start it out with cold food, you should be fine. Just don't open the door much for the first couple hours.

You didn't mention if you start it off on propane or electric.Propane will cool quicker than electric.

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Fizz
Explorer
Apr 23, 2015
For the first 8 hrs use your fridge like big cooler.
Transfer everything from your portable cooler to the fridge. We use frozen water jugs for ice. As many as you have room for. Later you have nice cool drinking water.
Set it up so you don't have to dig around to much to get what you need in the first few hours.
2012Coleman
Explorer II
Apr 23, 2015
When I first started, I used one of those little blue air recirculating fans. While it turned out to be too efficient as some veggies were overly cold, I use it during initial cooldown. You may want to start a day earlier.
mpierce
Explorer
Apr 23, 2015
valhalla360 wrote:
As long as you start it out with cold food, you should be fine. Just don't open the door much for the first couple hours.

This. If you have quite a bit of COLD food to put in, it will be fine. If just a little food, not as good.
2112
Explorer II
Apr 23, 2015
You didn't mention if you start it off on propane or electric.
Propane will cool quicker than electric.
valhalla360
Navigator
Apr 23, 2015
As long as you start it out with cold food, you should be fine. Just don't open the door much for the first couple hours.
time2roll
Nomad
Apr 23, 2015
As long as your food is all cold as you start the fridge it should be fine.

If you get some solar (200w?) you could just let the fridge run on propane in storage.
darsben
Explorer II
Apr 23, 2015
A little dry ice will tide you over
Old-Biscuit
Explorer III
Apr 23, 2015
Absorption fridges are slow to start the process............
First have to heat up the perk tube which then has to heat the coolant up enough for ammonia to turn to vapor then ammonia has to condense into a cold liquid which has to absorb the heat from freezer section......by then not much absorption available for food section.

Then coolant flows back down to absorber section and back to perk tube.
As freezer gets colder and colder more cooling effect can take place in food section.

So placing frozen gallon water bottles in fridge can help.....time is needed typically 8-12 hrs for cool fridge.

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