Excess heat in bunk above outdoor kitchen..
Just as title says - Bunk above compartment that houses the outdoor kitchen in our 280QBS is excessively hot. Warm to the touch. Heat is coming in from outside, obviously.. Warranty fix, or "mod"? ...
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Francesca Knowles wrote:
It's the fridge, which makes heat to "cool", however bizarre that fact always seems to me. Heat rises, and that's the point. Fix is shielding as suggested OR turning it off when sleeping- which last might be the simplest thing to do, since you probably only need the bunk at night.
Things in the fridge will keep just fine for eight hours or so without the fridge actually powered up.
Granted that an ammonia fridge is different, but all "cooling" appliances create heat in some way, and the process of cooling is really a matter of heat transfer. The term "cold" is really the absence of heat - your home fridge and A/C units all create heat by way of the compressors and fan motors generating heat as a byproduct of performing work. The refrigerant creates "cold" by transferring heat from one space to another. This is also how a heat pump can heat a home (within limits) - by removing latent heat from the outdoors and transferring it indoors.
