Leaving fridge at home running?

dahkota wrote:
Twice (in five years) when we had a sticks and bricks, our power went out while we were gone for an extended time. It probably went out more than that but those two times, it went out for days. We would have never known had we not had relatives down the street.

Put some ice cubes in a zip lock baggie. If the power goes out the ice cubes will melt. Yes when the power goes back on the melted cubes will refreeze but not in their original cube shape!!:B

If those bagged ice cubes have melted, that way you will KNOW the power went off, and long enough to spoil your food in the fridge.

IMHO this is must do for me in the MH fridge. CG power is so unpredictable. It could have gone down while you were gone from the R RV and then come back on, And you wouldn't know it when you got back that it had been off long enough to maybe make you sick from eating food that had not been kept cold at the safe temperature level.