MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Keep in mind Orlando isn't Seattle or Frostbite Falls.
Stuffing a refrigerator full of perishables then plugging it in is not the hot setup.
Why not consider pre-chilling stuff at home then filling the refrigerator at time of departure? Adding three one-gallon milk jugs frozen to minus 5F will suck a lot of heat out of a +75F refrigerator.
With 44 cubic feet of space in Quicksilver I could jam a lot of perishable food then head for the wilderness of a beach camp for two to three weeks. The refrigerator could freeze as long as ambient temperature did not exceed @ 75F
Whatever you decide, accurate thermometers will be a big help/
Mex,
Ice jugs in a residential fridge is overkill and not needed even in extreme hot weather. This IS the voice of experience on this.
My 26ft TT has no trouble reaching 95F inside with outside temps only in the 80's and the sun beating down with no clouds and not running the A/C in the summer.
I have many times started my home fridge in this type of conditions (90F+ inside temps) and come back 30 minutes later and the fridge compressor has shut off and thermometers are reading 34F in the fridge and 0F in the freezer.. That IS with an EMPTY fridge (IE no food, no ice).
Does not take long to pull the heat out of the space inside a residential fridge, especially when you have a compressor powered cooling system that does not solely rely on gravity like an absorbsion fridge.
Don't ever expect a RV absorbsion fridge to perform this good.
