Hey
We have a 2019 GD 2500 rl.
We have been sitting on the same site in Florida since the 15th. Unit cooling ok, 14F / 38F +/-. I keep a thermometer in both to keep a check. Set on AC power and until this morning was next to highest setting, # 5 I think. Anyway this morning it was a little warmer 22F / 40F
I bumped it up to the highest setting to see what happens.
In the meantime I am looking at my manual on installation. Our is in a slide. Took pics. It appears to have baffles ( I think ) but the instructions say it should have a fan. I find no fan, but don't know where to look for one either.
Any suggestions? I guess if it continues to cool poorly I will switch to propane and try that, although we have to leave the camper here for a week end of next week and I really don't trust it on propane. Sometimes it wants to cut off on propane after a while, sometime it will run for days...go figure
Will try pictures. The 1st three are taken through the bottom vent. Last two from top.
Thanks,
TR
dougrainer wrote:MitchF150 wrote:
Yes, you want to keep the baffle in place, but you do need some fans to push/pull the hot air out. Here is my setup in my slide placed Dometic fridge.
I had to add this myself. It gets **** hot up there and the fans push/pull out a lot of that heat for sure... A lot more then when the fans are off.
These have a temp sensor on them and when set on "auto" will run as needed depending on the temps.
I run my fridge on gas when it gets hot out. Just seems to recover quicker than on electric.
At night, I'll switch to electric just because it never gets opened while we are sleeping.. ๐
It's working for me. Sitting here in Eastern WA and it's only in the mid 80's right now, but those fans are pumping out the heat and the fridge is nice and cool... Well, the beer is very cold and that's the important thing! ๐
Going to be in the mid/upper 90's tomorrow....
Mitch
On this install, that wood panel the blue foam and fans are attached too----Can that top wood panel move UP another 2 or 3 inches? If so, you will get MORE air THRU the fins. Right now, you are really pulling the air BEFORE it has a chance to go THRU the fins to remove the heat.
Hi Doug. The pic is deceiving, in that there is at least 2" of space above where the fins are located even thou it does not look like it in the pic.
I checked this after your post and it does not look like there is much I can make that space more. but, thanks for the comment and letting me know to look for that.
It actually cools very well with the fan setup when it's dang hot outside and the sun beating full on that side of the trailer!
I have found that I do need to put some 'insulation' between the side wall part of it on the inside of the slide, as the inside panel on the slide gets VERY HOT.. I put up some cardboard as a buffer for the weekend trip and that made a HUGE difference, so I will be fabbing up a more permanent insulating solution before the next trip.
Might post up some pics of that if I can remember to do that! ha, ha!
Mitch
MitchF150 wrote:
Yes, you want to keep the baffle in place, but you do need some fans to push/pull the hot air out. Here is my setup in my slide placed Dometic fridge.
I had to add this myself. It gets **** hot up there and the fans push/pull out a lot of that heat for sure... A lot more then when the fans are off.
These have a temp sensor on them and when set on "auto" will run as needed depending on the temps.
I run my fridge on gas when it gets hot out. Just seems to recover quicker than on electric.
At night, I'll switch to electric just because it never gets opened while we are sleeping.. ๐
It's working for me. Sitting here in Eastern WA and it's only in the mid 80's right now, but those fans are pumping out the heat and the fridge is nice and cool... Well, the beer is very cold and that's the important thing! ๐
Going to be in the mid/upper 90's tomorrow....
Mitch
On this install, that wood panel the blue foam and fans are attached too----Can that top wood panel move UP another 2 or 3 inches? If so, you will get MORE air THRU the fins. Right now, you are really pulling the air BEFORE it has a chance to go THRU the fins to remove the heat.
Hi Riven. I got them off of Amazon (where else!) Here is what they are.
Kinda spendy $$..I paid $80 for the kit about a year ago. Looks like it's now $90.
Basically "plug and play" in the sense, all you need to do is find a 12v power source. (I tapped into the 12v power leads to the fridge in the lower compartment of the fride).
Then mounted the controller in the lower area and ran the wires up to the top.
The temp control is just a wire and I just mounted it to one of the brackets.
The reason for the "pool noodle" at the top is that the top baffle is not really mounted and I could not screw into it.. So, it's just mounted on the bottom with the supplied brackets the top is just sitting there with the noodle and some duct tape... Yes, it's "hacked" in there, but it works darn well!
The noodle mostly just keeps it from vibrating on the upper baffle. (Version 1.0 had it just duct taped to the top... This is version 1.1 and works better that way..)
Of course, still room for Version 2.0, but too lazy for that as this is working just fine!
Good luck! Mitch
Kinda spendy $$..I paid $80 for the kit about a year ago. Looks like it's now $90.
Basically "plug and play" in the sense, all you need to do is find a 12v power source. (I tapped into the 12v power leads to the fridge in the lower compartment of the fride).
Then mounted the controller in the lower area and ran the wires up to the top.
The temp control is just a wire and I just mounted it to one of the brackets.
The reason for the "pool noodle" at the top is that the top baffle is not really mounted and I could not screw into it.. So, it's just mounted on the bottom with the supplied brackets the top is just sitting there with the noodle and some duct tape... Yes, it's "hacked" in there, but it works darn well!
The noodle mostly just keeps it from vibrating on the upper baffle. (Version 1.0 had it just duct taped to the top... This is version 1.1 and works better that way..)
Of course, still room for Version 2.0, but too lazy for that as this is working just fine!
Good luck! Mitch
Yes, you want to keep the baffle in place, but you do need some fans to push/pull the hot air out. Here is my setup in my slide placed Dometic fridge.
I had to add this myself. It gets **** hot up there and the fans push/pull out a lot of that heat for sure... A lot more then when the fans are off.
These have a temp sensor on them and when set on "auto" will run as needed depending on the temps.
I run my fridge on gas when it gets hot out. Just seems to recover quicker than on electric.
At night, I'll switch to electric just because it never gets opened while we are sleeping.. ๐
It's working for me. Sitting here in Eastern WA and it's only in the mid 80's right now, but those fans are pumping out the heat and the fridge is nice and cool... Well, the beer is very cold and that's the important thing! ๐
Going to be in the mid/upper 90's tomorrow....
Mitch
I had to add this myself. It gets **** hot up there and the fans push/pull out a lot of that heat for sure... A lot more then when the fans are off.
These have a temp sensor on them and when set on "auto" will run as needed depending on the temps.
I run my fridge on gas when it gets hot out. Just seems to recover quicker than on electric.
At night, I'll switch to electric just because it never gets opened while we are sleeping.. ๐
It's working for me. Sitting here in Eastern WA and it's only in the mid 80's right now, but those fans are pumping out the heat and the fridge is nice and cool... Well, the beer is very cold and that's the important thing! ๐
Going to be in the mid/upper 90's tomorrow....
Mitch
