Cheap Refrigerator question
I'm thinking about buying a cheap refrigerator to replace the junk one in our travel trailer which has been a problem for years. Anyways, Do the engineers who make refrigerators design them to la...
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azrving wrote:
If I was staying with gas I would modify it differently then they do with the ARP type devices. The whole thing is flawed and insane from the very beginning. Resi or gas both have their pros and cons but right now I'm for the one that doesnt have as bad of a history of burning everything down. My old gas fridge was in excellent condition and had very little rust and was always level but it would be bad to return to a burned out rig or the worst part would be knowing that I left my dogs in a known fire trap. We all know what a cheesy industry RV's are but how did anyone ever let this whole thing continue on for so long? I dont think it's very hard to fix but it does require a little more money. It seems like it would be talked about on here.
Gas fridges have somewhat of an underserved reputation for fire danger. More RV fires stem from engine fires and, if memory serves, electrical fires than from fridges, and at least a fair chunk (not necessarily the majority) of fridge fires are due to things not specifically fridge related, like leaking connections to the propane system that could just as easily be found on any propane appliance.
Ammonia is not particularly inflammable; it has a fairly narrow band of concentration where it will burn. That, of course, is not very much consolation for anyone who has suffered due to a fridge fire; but it's equally wrong to think of an absorption fridge as though it were a bomb waiting to go off at the slightest provocation.
Far more beneficial, in my opinion, would be to use more fire-safe materials and construction methods in RVs so that they wouldn't generally go from having a small fire to being a raging inferno in half a minute or so.
