First time RV'r . Winnebago Navion Itasca 24G Class C

[jnw56]

First trip home from dealer on holiday weekend.

1. Can I drive with generator running & house AC on?

2. Norcold fridge does not work on LP. LP IS ON. Generator runs fine on LP

THANKS,
JEFF AND LANA

[RambleOnNW]

On our rig to start the fridge on propane for a trip I first turn on the gas valve at the tank, then run the propane furnace to clear some of the air out of the lines.

Then I start the fridge. It will produce an error code. I have to restart 5-6 times before the fridge will operate on propane successfully. It takes this amount of time to clear the air from the propane line from where it tees off from the furnace and goes to the fridge. The refrigerator does not consume much gas to operate.

[9er]

as said before ditto on turning the stove burner on to bleed the lines
then see if it works,pretty common with propane and the frig for some reason

[Desert_Captain]

jnw56 wrote:
First trip home from dealer on holiday weekend.

1. Can I drive with generator running & house AC on?

2. Norcold fridge does not work on LP. LP IS ON. Generator runs fine on LP

THANKS,
JEFF AND LANA

1. There should be no need to ever do so. In a 24' C the dash air should easily cool the entire coach. We live in Tucson and the dash air on our 24' C (E-350), will turn the cab into a meat locker and easily cools the rest of the coach to 72.

2. Try lighting each of the burners on the stove and let them run for a few minutes (until you have nice blue flames all around). You may have some air in the lines and this will clear it.

:C

[Golden_HVAC]

I always started my refrigerator about 1-3 days before a trip. Then check it the next morning before work, and see if it is getting cold. I still have a chance to re-light it - should it have gotten some air in the propane line, and the flame went out for whatever reason, the check light came on.

By that afternoon, I was ready to put food in the refrigerator and then be ready to go camping the next day.

Do you know that the refrigerator has to be level before lighting it? The boiler needs a certain amount of refrigerant in it to work properly, and if not it can boil dry, then any remaining ammonia will turn to crystals, so it will not work for a while.

If you did run it off-level and it stopped working on gas or electric, then shut it off, take the RV for a somewhat wild drive (or just drive it 50 miles on the freeways if that is where you are going anyway). After about 10 miles on a curving road, the ammonia and water mixture will have a change to return to the boiler. Then you can level it and it should start working again.

While driving, the ammonia and water mixture will tend to fall out of the evaporator and return to the boiler on it's own.

You do not need to be perfectly level, but most people have a square bubble in their refrigerator. If that is near the center, or within 1 ring of center, it is close enough.

I carry ramps in my RV to lift the low tire. I made them out of 2X10's for my larger class A motorhome, your C might work well with 2X8 boards, but the 2X10 is harder to drive off the side than the skinny boards.

For the ramps, the top board is 9.5" long and cut at a 45 to the ramp up side. The next board down is 4.5" longer, so board #2 is 14", #3 is 18.5" and #4 would be 23" if you need ramps that tall. I also carry one board about 10" long. Many times I find that one side needs to come up to say level #2 and the other side just one level of board.

Fred.

[eric1514]

jnw56 wrote:
First trip home from dealer on holiday weekend.

1. Can I drive with generator running & house AC on?

2. Norcold fridge does not work on LP. LP IS ON. Generator runs fine on LP

THANKS,
JEFF AND LANA

1. Yes
2. Turn around and go back to dealer. Or...is this your first propane fridge? If so, you may not know that it takes some time (hours) to cool down, even longer if you keep opening it to check the temp. Stop somewhere, remove the lower vent cover on the outside of the RV and verify that you have a small flame. If so, give it time.

Good luck,
Eric