Norcold 1210 cooling during Travel
Ok, just returned home from another weekend trip with my new Lifestyle LS36fw fifth wheel with a Norcold double door 1210 fridge. It still cools poorly during travel. Initially I thought it was a door...
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Phillip here with an update on yet another trip report. I don't want to repeat all that I have done trying to rectify this situation but will only report what I did differ on this trip. None of the previous attempts to keep the unit cold during travel has worked.
Using my camera as an eye into the lower refrigerator vent, I was able to identify that there are 2 cooling fans as shown in the Norcold 1210 manual. This also revealed what appears to be compromises in the back of the unit as foil was curled-up around some areas.
I taped those areas up (and pretty well, actually) from the lower exterior vent with gorilla tape. Honestly, I thought I had found the culprit. NOT!!!
Monday morning, the refrig was at 34 degrees. Great! I put my 2 nights worth of refrigerated stuff inside and continued my prep to hitch up and leave. The temperature had stabilized at 38.3. Great!
Within in 1 hour, the temp had rising to 45.9. Upon arrival at my destination, it was 55 degrees! The drive down was in upper 80's outside air temp.
Upon arrival and setting up the temp began to drop to 33-34 degrees for the entire stay. This in south FL with uppers 80's and high humidity. refrig was set on 9 and ALAWYS is.
This morning, prior to getting ready to depart, I switched the refrig to LP to give it time to "adjust" from ac to lp.
So now for what I did different today......I have thought that wind turbulence was affecting the draft or exhaust of the hot air. A scoop to force more air into and up and out the top vent made no difference. So this morning, I taped up 2 of the 3 rungs of vents in the upper and lower vents. The fan thermostat is set at 105 so I figured during travel with the fans, the venting would be adequate and perhaps would eliminate any wind turbulence.
At the time of departure, the temp was 35.1. One hour later it was 43.7. Another 30 minutes brought the temperature to 49.5. By this time, the outside temperature was in the mid 70's and it was pouring rain. Didn't matter.....still cooled for c__p!
Two hours later upon arrival at the storage lot, the outside temperature was 85 and the refrig was 53!
Nothing I have done makes a difference in the cooling of the refrigerator during travel and that is regardless of outside air temperature.
I'm at wits end. Phillip
Using my camera as an eye into the lower refrigerator vent, I was able to identify that there are 2 cooling fans as shown in the Norcold 1210 manual. This also revealed what appears to be compromises in the back of the unit as foil was curled-up around some areas.
I taped those areas up (and pretty well, actually) from the lower exterior vent with gorilla tape. Honestly, I thought I had found the culprit. NOT!!!
Monday morning, the refrig was at 34 degrees. Great! I put my 2 nights worth of refrigerated stuff inside and continued my prep to hitch up and leave. The temperature had stabilized at 38.3. Great!
Within in 1 hour, the temp had rising to 45.9. Upon arrival at my destination, it was 55 degrees! The drive down was in upper 80's outside air temp.
Upon arrival and setting up the temp began to drop to 33-34 degrees for the entire stay. This in south FL with uppers 80's and high humidity. refrig was set on 9 and ALAWYS is.
This morning, prior to getting ready to depart, I switched the refrig to LP to give it time to "adjust" from ac to lp.
So now for what I did different today......I have thought that wind turbulence was affecting the draft or exhaust of the hot air. A scoop to force more air into and up and out the top vent made no difference. So this morning, I taped up 2 of the 3 rungs of vents in the upper and lower vents. The fan thermostat is set at 105 so I figured during travel with the fans, the venting would be adequate and perhaps would eliminate any wind turbulence.
At the time of departure, the temp was 35.1. One hour later it was 43.7. Another 30 minutes brought the temperature to 49.5. By this time, the outside temperature was in the mid 70's and it was pouring rain. Didn't matter.....still cooled for c__p!
Two hours later upon arrival at the storage lot, the outside temperature was 85 and the refrig was 53!
Nothing I have done makes a difference in the cooling of the refrigerator during travel and that is regardless of outside air temperature.
I'm at wits end. Phillip
