In my previous RVs I liked to travel with propane off at tanks as safety measure.
The older fridge models had manual switches that when I opted for 120v from inverter - they would stay or die on this mode.
Motorhomes had bigger charging wires, so running fridge for couple of hr on house batteries, still would recharge them when I continue driving later.
Now I would like to do the same on TC and having built-in inverter on my truck, would be nice to take advantage of it and secure 120V cable from truck directly to the fridge plug.
My dilemma is the computerized system, that when I stop at gas station and turn the truck off - in lack of 120V the computer will start sparking the igniter and with lack of propane it will spark for a while.
That brings safety concern at gas station as well.
So for those who are good with computer controls - how to override the propane option and let the fridge go off or into 12V mode when 120V turns off?
The older fridge models had manual switches that when I opted for 120v from inverter - they would stay or die on this mode.
Motorhomes had bigger charging wires, so running fridge for couple of hr on house batteries, still would recharge them when I continue driving later.
Now I would like to do the same on TC and having built-in inverter on my truck, would be nice to take advantage of it and secure 120V cable from truck directly to the fridge plug.
My dilemma is the computerized system, that when I stop at gas station and turn the truck off - in lack of 120V the computer will start sparking the igniter and with lack of propane it will spark for a while.
That brings safety concern at gas station as well.
So for those who are good with computer controls - how to override the propane option and let the fridge go off or into 12V mode when 120V turns off?
toddb wrote:
You can always add https://www.arprv.com/
we did a 3200 mile trip this summer, pretty much along the rockies. The fridge stayed on but performed terrible, into the low 50s until we parked and stayed still. I'm finishing my compressor conversion now.
When automated system is good, you can buy a probe for about $20 and do your own monitoring.
$40 buys you WI-FI probe that will send alarm to your cellphone.
We just finished 8000 miles trip and our packed fridge performed very well, even flame got blown few times. Not bad for 18 years old unit.
Was checking upcoming Copart auction and they have 3 RV listed.
1 has crushed front, but the 2 looks like refrigerator fires to me.
Coincidence?
1 has crushed front, but the 2 looks like refrigerator fires to me.
Coincidence?
Per my experience the fridge has problem being out of level when restarting.
Camping in warm places, my fridge basically never would cycle off and on occasion I did park my RVs on slopes (presently I take advantage of TC jacks to level it on each stop).
But when I bought my Lance - looks like PO put lot of guards on back vents to protect from winds. I removed them as I did not see need, but guess what?
This summer we drove to Alaska, where in colder weather fridge was cycling and my flame was going off quite often.
So my procedure was to set the thermostat to max when taking off.
Camping in warm places, my fridge basically never would cycle off and on occasion I did park my RVs on slopes (presently I take advantage of TC jacks to level it on each stop).
But when I bought my Lance - looks like PO put lot of guards on back vents to protect from winds. I removed them as I did not see need, but guess what?
This summer we drove to Alaska, where in colder weather fridge was cycling and my flame was going off quite often.
So my procedure was to set the thermostat to max when taking off.
Talking about "you never know" scroll to 1:21
Extremely rare accident, but can you imagine the consequences of open propane tank on this RV?
Extremely rare accident, but can you imagine the consequences of open propane tank on this RV?
