Keeping Things Cold on the Road
Interested to know how long things in refrigerator stay cold while traveling and if anything in the freezer thaws out if we're on, say, an 8 hour road day. Just bought a TT and haven't used it yet.
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common sense trumps experience
Don't buy that at all..The point I was trying to make is there are tons of modern day RV refrigerators out there that the owners either did not want to replace with a new $1,000 dollar or more unit or buy the cooling unit itself, usually for less than $500..I have replaced a few cooling units in my day and done what I say below..
What they do is use the gas/electric refer as an icebox like the RV's of old.Put in an ice tray on top and a drain to the outside as they did for years and kept stuff safe and cold.
Even the freezer can be used for frozen stuff with dry ice which last very well.All without electricity or propane!Lot's of loggers and forest service people do it this way.
Bottom line is 8 hours without an RV refer running is nothing if the correct measures are taken.
As others have said here,I don't care how anyone else does things,I just try and share what I have done and seen over the years of mostly living in tin cans!I was 60 when I first bought a real house on a foundation,the prior years dwellings all had tires under them at one time or another.
