Reefer killed by the heat?
Yesterday's temperature got to 115 deg. We use our reefer for extra cold space while parked. End of day yesterday its not cold. Has it been killed or will it recover? It was running on shore...
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haydoracin wrote:
RV refrigerators are only capable of cooling so many degrees below the ambient temperature. At 115 degrees they probably won't be able to keep things cool without some assistance. i.e ice blocks of some sort.
In 100 to 104 degrees in current Texas heat, I can get customers refers (both Norcold and Dometic) to the spec of 32 to 35 degrees. Of course this is with the AC running keeping the interior temp between 75 and 85 degrees. You attempt to run as refer without AC in 90 plus heat and even over 100 degrees and you will have a problem. SAME thing with a residential. Try to keep a residential below 38 to 40 degrees in a garage that gets up to 110 degrees or higher. They BOTH have to remove heat for the cooling systems to work and if they only have HOT air, they will not work correctly. Doug
