Your RV fridge has an important job to do. In any case, you’ll be able to’t eat sure meals that haven’t been stored chilly sufficient, and no one desires to drink heat soda or beer.Â
Sadly, we’ve got had our fair proportion of fridge issues whereas touring full time. The excellent news? We’ve additionally realized quite a bit about hold an absorption RV fridge working easily.
Give it Time to Cool Down
It’s vital to notice that an RV fridge does take a while to chill down, particularly in scorching climate. If you happen to flip your fridge off between journeys, be sure to flip it on a day or two earlier than every getaway. That can guarantee it’s completely cooled down in your tenting adventures.Â
Fill with Chilly Meals
As soon as your fridge is cooled down, you’ll be able to add meals. If you wish to be sure the fridge stays chilly, strive including solely pre-chilled meals and drinks. This reduces the quantity of labor the RV fridge has to do. And that’s one thing that shall be particularly useful to the equipment within the warmth of summer season.Â
Don’t Fill it Too Full
One other factor to bear in mind when filling your RV fridge? Filling it too full can truly make it tough for the fridge to maintain up. Chilly air can’t flow into properly if each inch of the equipment is stuffed full. So, it is best to go away a little bit area between issues for that chilly air to achieve each merchandise within the fridge.Â
This may be a difficulty for us after we are headed someplace with out many grocery shops, however we make do by shopping for extra canned items and dry items.Â
Park on a Degree Floor
Due to the best way an RV fridge works, it’s going to run greatest when degree. Parking on an unlevel floor might truly injury the unit and may even trigger it to cease working fully. Ensure you pack some leveling blocks and attempt to decide campsites which might be comparatively degree with a view to hold your fridge working easily.Â
We’ve been in campsites that required us to make use of two packs of leveling blocks, and whereas it wasn’t enjoyable getting arrange, it was price it to be snug and hold our fridge up and working.
Park within the Shade
One other vital issue to think about when parking your rig in scorching climate? Shade. It appears apparent to say, however shade could make an unlimited distinction relating to maintaining your rig comfortably cool in the course of the summer season. Not solely that, however the barely decrease temperature helps your fridge sustain. For that reason, in case your RV fridge is having hassle, parking within the shade is a should.Â
Hold it Shut
Clearly, permitting chilly air to flee the fridge (and heat air to get inside) goes to decelerate the effectivity of the equipment. It would even imply the fridge can’t sustain if the climate is tremendous scorching. Luckily, so long as the fridge seal is sweet, you’ll be able to keep away from this downside by solely opening the door when completely crucial. Understanding what you want earlier than you open the fridge and getting all the pieces you want out directly may help quite a bit.Â
Verify the Seal
We talked about the fridge seal above. Sadly, the seals across the doorways of RV fridges tend to get worn out. A squished, cracking, or out-of-place seal can enable chilly air to flee and scorching air to enter the unit, resulting in a fridge that merely can not keep cool in scorching climate.
In case your seal seems lower than superior and your RV fridge isn’t staying cool, you may want to switch the seal. That is comparatively simple to do so long as you’ve gotten a little bit of persistence.Â
The video under may help with this course of.
Thaw it Out
As full time RVers, we run our RV fridge continually. Ultimately, this results in a buildup of ice on the fins, and after some time this buildup can get so thick that the fridge is not capable of cool as properly.Â
Luckily, it’s tremendous simple to unravel this downside. Merely flip off the fridge and let the ice soften away, ensuring to scrub up the water that collects within the backside of the fridge and freezer earlier than it overflows onto the ground. To hurry the method up, use a hair dryer.Â
Verify for Obstructions
Your fridge vents are there for a cause. The equipment actually wants to have the ability to breathe with a view to work correctly. Sadly, particles can get into the vents, inflicting obstructions and resulting in an RV fridge that may’t hold meals chilly sufficient.
For that reason, it’s a good suggestion to test your fridge vents firstly and finish of every tenting season. Moreover, in the event you discover the fridge isn’t working in addition to common, the vents must be one of many first stuff you test.Â
Set up a Fan
If you happen to’ve tried the entire recommendations above and your RV fridge nonetheless isn’t capable of get forward of the warmth, it could be time to offer the equipment a little bit of an improve. That is the place an extra fan comes into play.Â
Some select to put in followers behind the fridge to assist pull scorching air away from the fridge. That stated, little followers which might be put in contained in the fridge are a lot simpler to take care of and work nearly as properly.Â
The video under is an effective instance of set up an inside fridge fan.Â
The information above ought to guarantee your RV fridge stays up and working easily even within the hottest climate, permitting you to focus much less on how chilly your meals is and extra on having a tremendous time. Comfortable tenting!