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Mike_Up
Sep 29, 2014Explorer
From what I can see it's not even a true refrigerator, it's a thermoelectric cooler that only cools about 54 degrees below ambient temp. I had a Coleman like this and it's absolute garbage. By using this, you are just waiting for food poisoning. Plus it needs to be free standing as the fans pull the heat out of the unit. In an enclosure, there's no fresh cool air to pull into the unit.
Pull it out, sell it and put a standard ice cooler in it's place. Just another Forest River FAIL. Other brands use a standard ice cooler and a 3-way ammonia absorption refrigerator as an option.
All it has is a fan that runs continuous and it will run your battery down as if you left a fan going in the camper.
Here it is.
OP, pull that thermoelectric cooler out and use the open space as storage.
Get a cheap dorm "COMPRESSOR" refrigerator and put it on the cabinet top and use it. This is likely the "BEST" option even over an ammonia absorption refrigerator since no maker installs them correctly. They all require a large space above for adequate air flow which no maker allows for with such low walls in the pop ups.
My 1.9 CF ammonia absorption fridges in my previous Forest River and Starcraft campers could never keep temps down to 40 degrees at 100+ degree heat without a lot of add on fans. Then recovery time was still very long. A compressor refrigerator is the best and what I'd do if I went back to a Pop Up. You need a ice cooler for traveling obviously but we used one anyhow as it was such a pain to setup just to load refrigerator and to unload it.
A compressor refrigerator is your best bet!
BTW, my refrigerator in my TT operates and recovers just as good as my home refrigerator thanks to it's correct install with correct air flow.
Pull it out, sell it and put a standard ice cooler in it's place. Just another Forest River FAIL. Other brands use a standard ice cooler and a 3-way ammonia absorption refrigerator as an option.
All it has is a fan that runs continuous and it will run your battery down as if you left a fan going in the camper.
Here it is.
OP, pull that thermoelectric cooler out and use the open space as storage.
Get a cheap dorm "COMPRESSOR" refrigerator and put it on the cabinet top and use it. This is likely the "BEST" option even over an ammonia absorption refrigerator since no maker installs them correctly. They all require a large space above for adequate air flow which no maker allows for with such low walls in the pop ups.
My 1.9 CF ammonia absorption fridges in my previous Forest River and Starcraft campers could never keep temps down to 40 degrees at 100+ degree heat without a lot of add on fans. Then recovery time was still very long. A compressor refrigerator is the best and what I'd do if I went back to a Pop Up. You need a ice cooler for traveling obviously but we used one anyhow as it was such a pain to setup just to load refrigerator and to unload it.
A compressor refrigerator is your best bet!
BTW, my refrigerator in my TT operates and recovers just as good as my home refrigerator thanks to it's correct install with correct air flow.
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