Residential Fridge Stopped then Restarted
The Kitchen Aid refrigerator in our new coach was running on the inverter along with the regular outlets. No Generator or engine or hookups. It ran on batteries/inverter only for three hours in the mo...
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Bev&Keith,
It is quite possible that the reefer was down on high temperature. There are two problems that I find are poorly addressed in RVs. House reefers are not designed to be run in a tight box as they often use the sides for cooling and for the most part, they do not like running on modified square wave inverters. Either of these could cause it to over heat the compressor and shut down. Only the better ones let you know by shutting down the interior light as well.
What can you do about it? Not much. But the first thing I do when I run into this on an owners coach is to make sure that there is cooling room around the reefer and if there is not, I try to get some.
Matt
It is quite possible that the reefer was down on high temperature. There are two problems that I find are poorly addressed in RVs. House reefers are not designed to be run in a tight box as they often use the sides for cooling and for the most part, they do not like running on modified square wave inverters. Either of these could cause it to over heat the compressor and shut down. Only the better ones let you know by shutting down the interior light as well.
What can you do about it? Not much. But the first thing I do when I run into this on an owners coach is to make sure that there is cooling room around the reefer and if there is not, I try to get some.
Matt
