A minor moan... (1 Viewer)

[Touchwood]

We've just had our second trip away in our new (to us) 'van, and glad to say it is definitely living up to expectations, all the differences from our old 'van are major pluses - except one!

The old 'van had a green light on the fridge 240v switch, which enabled me to know when hooking up that no breakers had tripped and we did, indeed, have 240v power. The new one has nothing - no indication at all that things are working. Result was, I forgot to switch over from 12v. when we hooked up, and we only realised on the third morning when we found the milk had "gone off"

A minor thing, I know, but I do feel that it's an omission to not have any means other than plugging something in to check as to whether the hook-up is working - site supply breakers can easily trip, and one can be left without power for some time before realising if not running a fan heater or some other device dependent on 240v. It's easy to get round, we have a night light that plugs into a 240v socket which we can use - but why the omission?

 

[Khizzie]

That's unusual.mine has little lights on the mode switch which are hard to see unless right up close.

 

[Minxy]

... if you open the fridge door and there's no power there won't be a light on inside ....

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[Touchwood]

... if you open the fridge door and there's no power there won't be a light on inside ....

Now there's a thing - until I go out to the 'van to check I really have no idea whether there actually IS a light in the fridge!

 

[pyro]

Wish my fridge didn't have lights all over it, I have to cover it with a tea towel at night so we can get some sleep

You could always put a 12V led parallel to the supply to the fridge

 

[Madcaravanner]

... if you open the fridge door and there's no power there won't be a light on inside ....

Some fridge lights run off 12v and are on irrespective of whether the fridge is

Whilst we haven't got our motorhome yet (not Long now) when we had the caravan I had a polarity checker plug which I plugged in until we were fully set up to make sure we had 240v and the supply was safe which sometimes even in the UK was a problem on CL's

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[pappajohn]

the supply was safe which sometimes even in the UK was a problem on CL's

Then the UK site supply wasnt officially tested to comply with regulations and probably illegal.

 

[DL42846]

We have a Domestica fridge/freezer. I think that's what it's called, or something very similar. I have it set on auto and it just switches between 240v, 12v and gas all by itself. We don't pay any attention to it. Works a treat. We can see on the program controller indicator what it's running on. There is a red light button which I'm not exactly sure what its for. I think it operated a extractor fan behind the fridge to vent the hot air out.

 

[tonyidle]

... if you open the fridge door and there's no power there won't be a light on inside ....

There will because that works off 12v .

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[sedge]

We have an italic E on the control panel, that lights up when you plug into EHU. We call it the £ sign!

 

[suavecarve]

There will because that works off 12v .

Any chance the temperature wasnt low enough ?

 

[Mikey RV]

You can get night lights which are just like plugs. Just keep one in a socket, that way you will always know if you are on hook up.

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[Lenny HB]

You don't say make and model of fridge, I've never seen one without any indication in over 30 years of tugging & Motorhoming.

 

[Casper46]

Our Dometic fridge/freezer beeps if the temperature drops. It usually does it halfway through the Channel Tunnel.

 

[DBK]

We've got a neon light next to a couple of 13A sockets. When it glows we are connected.
Something like this, though ours is amber. Very easy to fit if you are happy working on 240v systems.

http://uk.farnell.com/camdenboss/ind515205-240-t-rd/neon-indicator-red/dp/745170?mckv

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[WynandJean]

... if you open the fridge door and there's no power there won't be a light on inside ....

Our doesnt have one.

Wyn

 

[jockaneezer]

Our doesnt have one.

Wyn

We were away in our caravan many moons ago, I got up for a drink in the middle of the night, opened the fridge, the light came on, I had my drink and was getting back into bed when I remembered our fridge didn't have an internal light. I went back and opened the door again and there was a packet of raw prawns glowing very brightly, something to do with bioluminescence I think, we binned them just in case though.

 

[WynandJean]

We were away in our caravan many moons ago, I got up for a drink in the middle of the night, opened the fridge, the light came on, I had my drink and was getting back into bed when I remembered our fridge didn't have an internal light. I went back and opened the door again and there was a packet of raw prawns glowing very brightly, something to do with bioluminescence I think, we binned them just in case though.

Wow! I'd never heard of that. That'll confuse the hell out of OP


Edit: Just looked it up and found this - http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archi...shrimp-don’t-fret-say-seafood-safety-experts…

Fascinating.

Wyn

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[Touchwood]

So - reading the link provided by WynandJean, it seems shrimp doesn't glow when it's frozen. All I need to do, then, is keep some fresh shrimp in the freezer box of the fridge, check it once in a while, and if it starts glowing I'll know the fridge ISN'T working! So much easier than just having a little light on the front.......wait.....errm

 

[Touchwood]

You don't say make and model of fridge, I've never seen one without any indication in over 30 years of tugging & Motorhoming.

It's a Dometic RM7360.

 

[Khizzie]

Our doesnt have one.

Wyn

Nor mine .

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[Lenny HB]

Our last van had a 75xx fridge freezer it had small LED's by the rotary controls.

 

[cruiser]

We have a Elddis 400. 1990 vintage. It does not have a light inside or outside of it. As we have had it 27 years. it has never bothered us.