RV Refrigerators Cooling Issues
We’ve been having issues with our new TT Norcold refrigerator not keeping things cold, quit working and warming up. I’ve been watching a few YouTube videos. These new RV refrigerators are ‘gas/elect...
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Surgtech94 wrote:
Most of the time we put a bunch of beverages in the refrigerator to get cold, Should we be putting beverages in the outside refrigerator to keep cold? Thank you in advance
Umm, yeah, that is a problem especially when you are putting a "bunch" of warm/room temp beverages into a absorbsion fridge.
As I have mentioned, absorbsion fridges are very slow to recover from being opened and/or warm non-prechilled items.
If you are filling your absorbsion fridge with a bunch of warm (60F-80F or higher) beverages it can take at a min of 24 hrs to chill those down to 40F. At the same time those warm beverages now will spread their heat through the fridge and pull the cold right out of everything in the fridge making everything in the fridge warm.
You can't treat a RV absorbsion fridge the same way like you do a home compressor fridge.
If you have a second fridge which sounds like you do, they are typically small dorm sized compressor fridges, load that fridge with your warm beverages to prechill them. Then once cold, you can transfer the prechilled beverages to your absorbsion fridge as needed.
RV absorbsion fridges typically just have enough cooling capacity to KEEP COLD items cold. Loading bunches of warm items at one time will take considerable time to chill at the expense of other items getting warm.
