Running refrigerator in cold trailer
We are leaving on our last (before winterizing) weekend trip this Friday. I usually start and load the refrigerator a day or two in advance. It has been unusually cold here, 40's in the day upper 20's...
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aruba5er wrote:
If it is 30 degrees in the camper the fridge will not run. It's cold enough Right? well the freezer is than 30 degs too. So in order to get the freezer cold and freezing the fridge has to run, so you need to heat up the camper enough to make the fridge run. won't hurt the fridge to run in outside freezing temps. I mad a lot of service calls to people that said their freezers wern't working and then find out they were talking about the one in the garage and it was 30 degrees in the garage or colder. Don't need to run. cold enough. Thermostat is in the refer, not the freezer/
Good point about themostat in fridge area. You can also turn on the anti-humidity setting on some fridges that keeps the internal light bulb turned on. Often it can be enough to overcome this problem- down to a point.
