Norcold refrigerator
I purchased a used 2010 Montana Mountaineer last fall and have camped with it once last year and once so far this year. While preparing to leave later this week for another trip I turned the Refrigera...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Might be just a difference in 'wording'
Doug-----"24 hours to reach operating temp" (Freezer 0*F/Food Section 38*F)
Soundguy----"have it sufficiently cool within 4 hours" (Freezer cold/Food Section cool)
I don't buy the fridge at full operating temps within 4-6 hrs. but can feel cooling difference in freezer/food section within that time
Until recently, I had been going off the sensor temp that Norcolds will give when you're in the 'secret menu' .. Sometimes it will show 17* in 4 hours or 17* in 16 hours, not even in hotter weather sometimes.
I recently installed thermometers and found out that when the sensor is at 17*, the freezer is sufficiently cold, but the fridge is not... Conversely, after driving for two hours, the sensor might say 31* while the food is only a degree or two warmer. Now I just ignore my sensors, don't worry about them and enjoy camping.
I still fuss over my black tank sensors though :) Someday I'll learn to ignore those too.
