Ammonia versus Compressor Fridge...
After all the talk about Danfoss compressor fridges and how much better they were than the old school Ammonia Units, I decided to 'fiddle with mine and do a long term test using a remote digital recor...
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rexlion wrote:
... But I see in another thread that you got a new TC and your new fridge (although same model as before) won't cool well. Did you ever figure out why?
I did not see the question over a year ago, so this is late reply.
When the tests I posted on page 8 were done on my Fleetwood, the camper did have some dryrot damages, so when I discover that right before going for "trip of my retirement" I bought Lance, who is the same year, having the same refrigerator.
I post some questions at the time since Lance fridge did not perform at first, but later it did and here is my conclusion about absorption refrigerators.
-they need 24 before they will cool down
-the sliding thermistor in fridge compartment is tricky at first, but it does the job
-fridge part will always cool less than freezer part.
Usually the last issue is not a biggie since food in fridge goes fast, when we want the ice-cream frozen, so we did not do anything to improve that, but I read some members add fans for better air circulation, some freeze a water bottle and than put it at bottom of refrigerator.
We did the frozen bottle trick in extreme situation, like 120F outside, or loading lot of fresh food.
I still own both campers, where Lance is my guesthouse in California and I use Fleetwood for trips and fridges work just fine.
Fact is that since 2017 we did not get 124F for several days again.
