fridge not getting cold?

[tshirtman]

Getting ready to go in the morning and plugged in to cool fridge/freezer and freezer seems to be fine but fridge not getting cold ????
Help

[Nvr2loud]

If you have nothing frozen, just put in any thermal mass like pop cans, water bottles, apples, ect. The cooler the items are the better, but room temperature items will also work. A fridge works a lot better with thermal mass. Air temperature changes very quickly, so the fridge works very hard to remove the heat from the air. If you add a full fridge of thermal mass the fridge works to cool those items, once they are cold they help to offset heat gain from ambient outside (outside the fridge) temperatures.

A fully-loaded fridge will cool faster then an empty fridge, sounds wrong.... but it works.

[satchelpaigefan]

We Fulltime, and had aterrible time with our refrigerator. No matter what we tried it would ice up and then it would cool very well.

A friend of ours who had tried several other options told us about the fridge-fix that he had installed with great results. So we ordered one, and holy cow what a difference it made. Our refrigerator cools in a fraction of the time, because of all the air movement inside.

We hated defrosting every few weeks too, but thank the lord we dont have to do that anymore. (WHAT A PAIN!)

[DiskDoctr]

Wishbone51 wrote:
Freeze them first 😉

Yeah, I should've mentioned that, but your post made me chuckle! 🙂

[Wishbone51]

^ haha.. My son bought a pack of those hoping that they would freeze.. It took a very long time, and affected the temperature of the fridge as well.... Freeze them first 😉

[DiskDoctr]

Agree with all the above "add a frozen item to speed up the cooling process" posts.

We use "Ice Pops" in the freezer. They lay flat and make a nice frozen treat 😉 They can even be folded to fit odd bent shapes.

And they are not harmed by freeze/thaw cycles, worst case.

Things like this also help keep the temp of the freezer and thereby the fridge more stable over time (thermal mass for our techie friends)

[Thumperpull]

Sounds exactly like my post a couple weeks ago.

[dave17352]

I keep a couple of frozen gallon jugs in the deep freeze at home. When temperature is over 90 i put them in my propane fridge in the truck camper. They help a ton over a three day period.

[tshirtman]

thanks for the frozen jug trick- never thought of that b-4

cooling off after about 7 hours, leaving it plugged in all night for
the coolest in the morning then switching to propane for the trip.

[tshirtman]

thanks for the frozen jug trick- never thought of that b-4

[720Deere]

MitchF150 wrote:

Also, keeping the trailer cool inside helps too.. If I have 30 amp service, I'll run the AC in the trailer and keep the fridge on gas... Helps keep the beer at a nice 40* or so temp... 🙂

Mitch

40* beer in my fridge would be considered a disaster! A fan definitely helps. I like to use the frozen water bottle trick as well. Absorption fridges are not the most efficient in hot ambient temps, but with a little care and a few tricks thinking outside the box, they get the job done.

[midnightsadie]

it realy speeds things up if you put a frozen gal jug in there,

[Wishbone51]

I haven't checked the internal temperature, but when I put my Norcold in diagnostic mode, it tells me the sensor temperature. When I run on gas, the sensor temperature goes up 3-4 degrees.. I've never done a long-term gas test.

[MitchF150]

I find mine gets colder 'faster' when run on gas to start off..

Once it's cooled down, I'll switch it to electric if I'm still plugged in.

When it's hot outside, I'll just leave it running on gas, as it maintains the colder temps better when the door is opened and closed all day long..

Also, keeping the trailer cool inside helps too.. If I have 30 amp service, I'll run the AC in the trailer and keep the fridge on gas... Helps keep the beer at a nice 40* or so temp... 🙂

Mitch

[mlts22]

I just treat it as a glorified icebox for the first 12 hours, and toss in frozen water bottles or gel packs.

A fridge fan does wonders.