Leveling a Fridge while on the Road
We travel with our fridge on (the fridge's rear coils are facing the TT's right-side, outside wall). Sometimes we pull off here and there on some uneven surfaces for 4-8 hours at a time. I can easil...
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pnichols wrote:
FWIW, we can't stand to camp in our rig out of level enough to affect our absorption refrigerator. We are far more picky on levelness than the refrigerator.
At home in storage, the RV is also kept very level during times we run the refrigerator.
Norcold Customer Service told me out-of-level running for short periods had no effect on long term reliability of our refrigerator. What I DID NOTICE on the rare times we parked for a bit too far out of level was that the refrigerator could not maintain it's temperature ... the interior temperature would start to rise.
Get Norcold to put that statement in WRITING. As always, statements are subject to FACTS. What determines Short periods???? Some may think a few hours(bad), while Norcold meant a few minutes(less than 30 minutes). ANYTIME an Absorbsion refer is run out of spec level, it WILL cause a very very small problem. It accumulates over years. You never notice the affects of the times you went off level until it builds up and then one day the refer does not perform to expectations. Then you wonder why. The reason your refer started to rise was because the coolant was not circulating correctly and was starting the very small blockage. IF you parked long enough to notice a temp rise, you were NOT parked for a "short Period" of time. Doug
