Residential RV refrigerators
I am looking at purchasing a new RV within the year and have been trying to educate myself about the advantages of the different type of refrigerators. I understand the older RV refrigerators, but am ...
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MrWizard wrote:
I never level the RV to buy groceries or shop kmart or what ever...
The same with us.
You don't have to be anywhere near that paranoid for short periods of off-level parking with an RV absorption refrig. We once parked way off level at a picnic for several hours in the heat of the day and only after several hours did I notice the thermometer inside the refrig was rising above 38 degrees ... and that was probably mostly caused by us not having much in the freezer to act as a cold thermal mass so as to help maintain overall internal temperatures. We would never camp as far off-level as we were that day. I called the Norcold company the next day regarding the incident and they said a few hours of operation at extreme off-level here and there would not affect the refrigerator's long-term reliability.
One of these days maybe the RV manufacturers will finally get it right and mount RV refrigerators on gimbals so they are always level no matter how the RV is parked ... or better still, the refrigerator manufacturers should come up with a way to mount only their sensitive internal plumbing on an internal gimbal arrangement within the refrigerator.
