ScottG wrote:
Dutch_12078 wrote:
ScottG wrote:
When it gets down to 40, or roughly the temp set point of the fridge area, the fridge wont run enough to keep stuff in the freezer section frozen.
I don't think the fridge "shuts down" but it has no reason to run at those temperatures.
The inside of the fridge temp is the controlling factor regardless of the outside temp. A residential refrigerator installed in an RV has three sides exposed to the inside temps, with only the back having some exposure to outside temps. Our fridge has worked fine with outside temps down to -4 deg.F and just the lower vents blocked off. LP/electric absorption fridges are much more effected by outside temps, both unusually high or low.
The OP is talking about his fridge being in 40 degree temps - around all sides. At least that's the way it's written.
My point is, if it's colder on the outside of the fridge than it is on the inside, it's not going to run because it doesn't have to!
I believe the OP was asking about a standard residential compressor refrigerator. Not sure why RV absorption refrigerators have been introduced in the discussion.
