Residential fridge pros/cons
We are in the process of ordering a fifth wheel. The model we are looking at features an upgraded/larger residential fridge. I anticipate that most camp sites that we will visit will be within a few...
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All I know is, when the power goes out at home, the ice cream in my freezer compartment of my refrigerator begins to thaw after a couple hours. It turn into soup after 16 hours. I suppose, if you don't carry ice cream, meats would stay frozen. Wonder how long ice cubes would remain "ice".
FYI, I am on my 3rd TT: Dutchmen, Springdale, Outback. All 3 trailers had great working RV refrigerators in them. All 3 would get the temperature in the freezer about 5 to 10 below zero. All three trailers, it took about a week after we got them to start going that low. Almost as if they had to broke-in or something. But all 3 did the same thing. Each day the freezer got colder and colder.
We leave our TT plugged in 24 x 7 and the refrigerator is also on all the time. There are occasions when I unplug the camper and forget to plug back in. The gas switches on the refrigerator then.
Even when I do have to unplug and power everything down for a while, now when turning the refrigerator back on, it only takes about 5 hours and the freezer is back down to -10 below zero. The refrigerator freezer in my house doesn't even get this cold.
Just an FYI. All I know is, its much easier to keep things cold in your refrigerator when there's a power source running.
FYI, I am on my 3rd TT: Dutchmen, Springdale, Outback. All 3 trailers had great working RV refrigerators in them. All 3 would get the temperature in the freezer about 5 to 10 below zero. All three trailers, it took about a week after we got them to start going that low. Almost as if they had to broke-in or something. But all 3 did the same thing. Each day the freezer got colder and colder.
We leave our TT plugged in 24 x 7 and the refrigerator is also on all the time. There are occasions when I unplug the camper and forget to plug back in. The gas switches on the refrigerator then.
Even when I do have to unplug and power everything down for a while, now when turning the refrigerator back on, it only takes about 5 hours and the freezer is back down to -10 below zero. The refrigerator freezer in my house doesn't even get this cold.
Just an FYI. All I know is, its much easier to keep things cold in your refrigerator when there's a power source running.
