Fridge and cold weather

Ozarkwoods wrote:
That's not good Bob, I wonder if a small personal heater would have helped?

I did manage to get it going again.

Posted a thread about it here.

That's not good Bob, I wonder if a small personal heater would have helped?

JimM68 wrote:
Wow Bob, that's awful!
Did you have the light bulb in it?

I tried to keep my rig "running" all winter, it just makes me feel better. Early January I gave up, shut it down, and winterized, this winter in Chicago has been brutal.

I did the tape off most of the lower vent, and plugged a 100 watt light bulb in behind it. The fridge, a dometic side by side, did fine.

Yes I had a light bulb in it.
But I didn't plug the vents.....

But, thinking back to last November / December. Minus 34C with a light bulb and it survived.

So I guess I got lazy and assumed all was well... It wasn't.

Now I suffer the consequences of my own actions!

Wow Bob, that's awful!
Did you have the light bulb in it?

I tried to keep my rig "running" all winter, it just makes me feel better. Early January I gave up, shut it down, and winterized, this winter in Chicago has been brutal.

I did the tape off most of the lower vent, and plugged a 100 watt light bulb in behind it. The fridge, a dometic side by side, did fine.

I like Cookies BBQ sauce.

DianneOK wrote:
Sweet Baby Ray's. :)

LOL, thanks, I'll try some! :B

Sweet Baby Ray's. :)

Well, here is Bob, eating crow!

2 days ago my fridge died a catastrophic failure.

Seems it got too cold for it and although I took some preventative steps, evidently I did not take enough.

Sustained temperatures of over minus 30 C with a wind chill of in the minus 40's and my fridge packed it in.

Try as I might, I cannot get it to function now... I have tried everything I can think of to bring it back to life, including superheating the entire back and compartment area.

Looks like I'm up for a new fridge.

Can anyone recommend a nice BBQ sauce that goes with crow?

Aha, so that's what happened. Left the TT plugged in, winterized, with the fridge running for a month or so and noticed some stuff in the freezer seemed to have thawed a bit and refroze...but it was when the temps got real low. Now I know.

Huh, learn something new every day!

I noticed last December work camping in Kansas that the few nights it got into the single digits I had to crank the thermostat a little colder on the fridge to keep the freezer from thawing out. I thought it was just because I had more heaters running inside the RV to keep things comfortable and one of them sat right next to the fridge and having it running 24/7 was warming up the fridge it was sitting next to. Thought it was odd but couldn't come up with a better answer until now.