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DutchmenSport
Dec 12, 2018Explorer
I've never had the outside kitchen style camper before, but I have done a lot of reading and try to keep up with things, way beyond the scope of my own camper.
But, if I remember right, are these small residential refrigerators even able to be run in such an enclosed space when the kitchen is all closed up? Without some kind of ventilation inside the enclosed outside kitchen, wouldn't the heat produced from the refrigerator itself just get trapped in that compartment area. The colder the inside of the refrigerator got, the hotter the outside of it got, until it reaches a point where the heat build up will kill the refrigerator completely?
Like I said, I've never owned one, so I don't know, but there must be some logical reason why manufacturers do not supply power to those refrigerators in those closed and sealed compartments?
Something to think about? Has anyone found a way to actually run the refrigerator inside that compartment with it all closed up? What's the outcome?
But, if I remember right, are these small residential refrigerators even able to be run in such an enclosed space when the kitchen is all closed up? Without some kind of ventilation inside the enclosed outside kitchen, wouldn't the heat produced from the refrigerator itself just get trapped in that compartment area. The colder the inside of the refrigerator got, the hotter the outside of it got, until it reaches a point where the heat build up will kill the refrigerator completely?
Like I said, I've never owned one, so I don't know, but there must be some logical reason why manufacturers do not supply power to those refrigerators in those closed and sealed compartments?
Something to think about? Has anyone found a way to actually run the refrigerator inside that compartment with it all closed up? What's the outcome?
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