Dusty R wrote:
We had an '03 Itasca that the refrigerator was on the same side as the gas tank fill was. Because we ran the refrigerator on LP while driving, I wondered about it causing a fire when filling the gas tank.
Being that it was on the driver's side, I ran a cord from the refrigerator to the driver's seat, and put a switch on the end of the cord, so I could turn the refrigerator off while gassing up.
Our 2005 Itasca Class C motorhome has the same configuration.
However, right beside the coach door (on the passenger side) is the switch that controls the solenoid relay that connects/disconnects the coach batteries to the coach system.
When parked at the gas pump and before gassing up, I just open the coach door, turn the coach batteries off so that the 12 volt refrigerator ignitor can't start the flame and then I gas up. I have to remember to turn this switch back on when we leave the gas station, but I have a coach 12 volt system voltmeter on the dash that tells me if the coach's 12 volt system has power or not.
HOWEVER, I'm not sure that the refrigerator flame will be put out (via an automatic 12 volt powered gas turn-off valve) if it's already burning whenever I turn off the coach's 12 volt power. I don't think that Winnebago installed those automatic electric gas turn-off valves much - or at all - in their modern products ... so maybe what I'm doing when gassing up is not 100% safe.
Does anyone know if Norcold refrigerators and/or Winnebago RVs built in the 2000's automatically somehow shut off their gas flames whenever 12 volt power to the refrigerator control circuit board looses 12 volt power??
