Successful summer mods
In anticipation of our week long lake Powell trip, I finally got around to installing some fans for better fridge circulation for summer camping as my fridge was lucky to get below 50 in 100+ temps ...
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anutami wrote:HMS Beagle wrote:
Want to know if the fridge fans made a difference? Big or little difference?
Great question, I would say it makes all the difference in the world!,, and scratching my head why a 4 season rated camper would not come with them from the factory. As we all know coolers are very difficult to cary with a TC and my fridge would be in the low 50’s in hot temps, now they are in the low 40’s and overnight gets down the the high 30’s, we just got back from beach camping where temps were in the 80’s and it was down in the low 30’s. I had to bring the setting down on the fridge for the first time ever. Of course with the kids getting in and out of the fridge really kills the temps. I found I can freeze bottles of water as well and put them in the fridge to help out.
If you need a fan, you might have something wrong with your fridge.
I had 2 campers with Dometic refrigerators and I operate them in 110F most of the summer, when had extreme of 125F.
I actually run test on 1 of them and in 105F it froze gallon of water after running most of the day.
On 2nd fridge I did have some problem, but turned the camper roof installer left big chunk of aluminium roofing covering fridge vent. Once I clear the vent and adjusted thermistor, fridge works just fine with no fan and again with 110F temperatures, quite often we see 135F on parking lots.
