The duty cycle is 2:3, so in my 6 cubic foot Dometic that means 40 minutes out of every hour. This happens even at temperatures below 20 c (68 f).
The boiler temperature runs between 173 and 189 C. When mine "misbehaves" it goes higher than the ARP can display but I have seen 225 C. It only reaches those temperatures whey I have bypass the shut off feature.
pnichols wrote:
I wonder if Norcold and/or Dometic absorption refrigeratros just happen to use the same cooling size unit for their various different cubic footage size models? :h
If they do, that might explain some of the absorption refrigerator complaints (plus rare fires from over-heating) from the owners of larger size RVs - thus driving them to switch to residential refrigerators.
It seems like the same size cooling unit would be cycled ON a lot more trying to keep a big box cool versus - say - a 7 cubit foot box ... thus maybe not doing so well, or worst case failing completely - due to higher temperatures from longer burner run-times.
