ARP Refrigerator Protection
Have any of you installed an ARP Refrigerator Control? If so, are you satisfied with it? Is it effective? Mike Scheer
Forum Discussion
Harvey51 wrote:
I started out to buy it when I saw Pianatuna's recommendation but the $200 price stopped me. It just seems like a lot for a device that flips a switch off when the temperature rises too high. A $5 thermostat can accomplish that. It seems to me it should be possible to make an electronic device with $5 worth of parts that turns off upon sensing high temperature and does not turn it on again until cool AND level, or flashes a light to indicate a person needs to turn it on when ready. Must I make my own to get a reasonable price?
I don't blame the ARP guys; they probably have horrendous insurance and legal costs when fridges fail for whatever reason.
I am very careful about levelling and turning off the fridge when not level and live in the cool north.
As Larry said- the ARP does much, much more than that. If it were that simple, don't you think Dometic and Norcold would already be doing it, instead of trying to bypass the ARP patent (unsuccessfully, I should add).
The ARP uses a very high end temperature sensor and an algorithm that basically knows what is going on in the tubing. It adjusts the cutoff temperature after a shutdown.
