I have been playing the fridge game for a month on the road and cannot keep it cold in the real hot weather.I keeps blowing the thermal coupler diode and then I get a E-3 error. On our last week of the trip when the thermal coupler blew I jumped it and still will not keep fridge cold, night time fridge goes down to 34 or so degrees but in the day if it is real hot above 90 (and then blow the coupler) it will climb as high as 55, we travel alot and sometimes go for 10 or more hours freezing ice blocks does keep the food cold but the temp on fridge still goes up been thinking about hooking my generator up and trying that does anyone have experience with this method and does it keep the fridge cold off the electric. This has been a problem since I bought this TC, temp always rise after about 4 hours of travel time right from day 1 very frustrating.
Dave
Dave
One other quick note the fridge is LP or 120 VAC is the 120 still not as good as LP but with no flame would it still cool the fridge well that's why I thought Generator
Well I have been running on propane, so that rules out that problem, the TC is brand new also checked the flues, no blockage, the only time it heats up is when we are moving, when stopped the fridge works like a charm tried the trap in the drip tube, also tried plugging one end in case it was sucking the cold air out. Narcodog when you say you put fans in the fridge compartment are you talking about the outside where the burner and flu are. As for the flame being blown out when you stop and open the fridge compartment the tubes at the bottom are hot running up to the boiler but the boiler doesn't feel real hot though but don't know if it should be that hot it's definitly warm though, as I said it cools great when stopped. Also even when the out side temps are in the 70's it still raises the temps in the fridge but usually only into the high 40's, weird problem though because it only happens when moving and you would think that there is enough air flow with the wind blowing in through the vents to move the air through the flues. tried blocking the bottom vents in case the flam was being blown out still no go, even though that worked a bit but the outside temps were in the 60's, as soon as they got up into the 70's doesn't matter what I do the temps still rise, thats why I thought about the generator, no flame to blow out, even thought about going to a threeway fridge and run with a inverter and the genny.
