Driving with refrigerator on
Hi, We are making a 7 hour drive today to Yosemite, we have always just kept our refrigerator to on and plugged into our truck for shorter trips. Do we need to turn the propane on to keep the refri...
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bid_time wrote:Poohper wrote:You've been a member for 10 years. So I would surmise you have seen a lot of TT's. When was the last time you saw a TT that didn't have propane tanks mounted right on the very front tongue, within 3-feet of the tow vehicle.
Bid-Time,
snide remarks are not appreciated. By the way I can drive in any weather CA can dish out.
Sorry if my remark sounded "snide", but when you make a statement like "My propane tanks are only about 3 feet from our truck gas tank. Is it safe to have propane that close to the gas tank?", you got to wonder if it's all a joke, you just wasn't thinking before you typed, or what. Just about every TT has the propane tanks within 3-feet, and they have been like that for about 40 years or more. So I guess it must be safe.
I think he meant having the burner close to the gas tank.
I run my TT with the fridge on gas. It is a 2 way dometic. It is only a few years old. It is a piece of $#!+. Doesn't cool well on gas, and on our last trip home in 114* temps, the thermal fuse popped. The burner must have gotten too hot as maybe the air pressure reduced the airflow and made it run too hot? I had to replace my roof vent with a replacement Camco cover. Does this flow less than a Stock Dometic?
Anyhoo, I'm replacing it with a nearly new Norcold 641.3 3 way that I bought for my motorhome but only used once before I decided to sell that coach. Much better unit. Cools, better. It actually has a temperature control knob, not that stupid sensor that always falls off the fin, and probably made it run too long (lower is colder) and I can run it on 12V so long as I increase the wire gauge to the fridge...
