RV vs residential refrigerator?
We are on the fence about trading out our 10yr old Dometic for a Whirlpool residential refrigerator. Because of space in our floor plan, it looks like the only choice still made that small... It loo...
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MrWizard wrote:
Why are you worried about temp range
It's no different than living in a house or apartment
There is a difference.
In a house, your fridge is probably either up against an insulated wall or up against an insulated wall inside a cabinet.
In an RV, your fridge is probably in a sealed cabinet up against a thinly insulated wall.
I monitor my Whirlpool fridge temps, and this year I noticed the temps fluctuating when we stayed a month in a Gulf Coast campground. The sun would strike the RV's fridge wall most of the day. We could feel the heat inside even with the ACs on. It was even hotter in the space behind our Whirlpool.
From the Whirlpool manual: The preferred room temperature range for
optimum performance, which reduces electricity usage and
provides superior cooling, is between 60°F (15°C) and 90°F
(32°C).
So I installed some fans in the old fridge's roof vent to pull air from the inside of our RV, behind the fridge, and out the roof vent.
Seems to have solved the temperature fluctuations.
