Top tips for keeping your fridge cold

[Toady]

Always looking for ways to keep the beer ice cold in this weather.

My tips are:
1. External fridge fan.
2. Internal fridge fan
3. Chill your fridge on hook up before leaving home
4. 3/4 Blue ice blocks in freezer overnight and move to main fridge in the day. Swap daily.
5. Service your gas jet and flue.
6. Pull out canopy to shade fridge when hot.
7. Park on the flat where possible.

Any extra tips please?

 

[Brains]

Keep the fridge fully stocked with cold drinks.
As soon as you empty one, replace it.

Put 2-3 of 1.5 litre fizzy drink bottles, 90% filled with water into your home freezer overnight.
Then put these into the top of your fringe when initially starting the fridge from hot.

 

[Bessy765]

Don’t over fill it the air has to circulate to cool. If you put too much wine or beer in it throw the veg out.

 

[Reallyretired]

Have a separate compressor cold box for beer. That way swmbo can pack the fridge solid with inessentials.

 

[tonka]

Any extra tips please?

Thermal paste renewal as already been mentioned on here

Note.. if you have refillable gas it's worth doing a costing as with new electric prices it may be cheaper and faster to cool fridge on gas now .

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[Landy Andy]

Stop the wife standing there with the door open while asking questions.

 

[Toady]

Stop the wife standing there with the door open while asking questions.

This causes arguments in our van big time.

Makes my blood boil

 

[Toady]

Thermal paste renewal as already been mentioned on here

Note.. if you have refillable gas it's worth doing a costing as with new electric prices it may be cheaper and faster to cool fridge on gas now .

I will renew the thermal paste soon. The van is a 2017 so the fridge is still running well

I am lucky in some respects as I can run my 3 way off the 200W solar in good weather.

 

[mikebeaches]

Try to park with the fridge-side of the van facing north.

 

[Landy Andy]

Remove the fly mesh from fridge grills

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[nicholsong]

Try to park with the fridge-side of the van facing north.

With our Continental MH that means our awning and chairs will also be facing North - not ideal sometimes.

 

[mikebeaches]

With our Continental MH that means our awning and chairs will also be facing North - not ideal sometimes.

If really hot I'd have thought it would be ideal...

Exactly the same for our van.

 

[missmollie]

Our Dometic has the separate freezer section above, we have fans and renewed paste tried everything. However when on the continent and temperatures are mid to high 30's the fridge still struggles yet the freezer works fine. What I do now is I empty freezer and get one of the foam noodles you use in pools and cut slits for the fins in and cover half the fins in the freezer. This makes the fridge work far better but obviously you can't store food in the freezer.

 

[Richard n Ann]

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Our Dometic has the separate freezer section above, we have fans and renewed paste tried everything. However when on the continent and temperatures are mid to high 30's the fridge still struggles yet the freezer works fine. What I do now is I empty freezer and get one of the foam noodles you use in pools and cut slits for the fins in and cover half the fins in the freezer. This makes the fridge work far better but obviously you can't store food in the freezer.

You could remove the freezer on our dometic.

 

[Landy Andy]

Our Dometic has the separate freezer section above, we have fans and renewed paste tried everything. However when on the continent and temperatures are mid to high 30's the fridge still struggles yet the freezer works fine. What I do now is I empty freezer and get one of the foam noodles you use in pools and cut slits for the fins in and cover half the fins in the freezer. This makes the fridge work far better but obviously you can't store food in the freezer.

I just removed the complete freezer section. Much better and now bigger fridge.

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[James-Alex]

Stop the wife standing there with the door open while asking questions.

I said only this today. Why keep the bloody door open for five minutes just looking. It’s only 30c at the time

 

[busby]

Have a separate compressor cold box for beer. That way swmbo can pack the fridge solid with inessentials.

Same here,,she insists on using the fridge for food so I need the comp fridge for essentials like beer and wine..BUSBY.

 

[nicholsong]

Our Dometic has the separate freezer section above, we have fans and renewed paste tried everything. However when on the continent and temperatures are mid to high 30's the fridge still struggles yet the freezer works fine. What I do now is I empty freezer and get one of the foam noodles you use in pools and cut slits for the fins in and cover half the fins in the freezer. This makes the fridge work far better but obviously you can't store food in the freezer.

I am seriously struggling to understand

'foam noodles'

'pools' - what swimming pools?

'fins'

'cover half the fins in the freezer'

Please, please help me.

 

[Nirvanauk]

I will renew the thermal paste soon. The van is a 2017 so the fridge is still running well

I am lucky in some respects as I can run my 3 way off the 200W solar in good weather.

How does that work then?

 

[125BEER]

Buy a bag of ice cubes in supermarket lay flat on t bottom helps keep freezer good (not scientific but worked recently in Spain @ 33°)

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[poppycamper]

And I thot it was only Mrs Poppycamper who opened fridge door and spent ten minutes trying to decide what she wants to take out... even when door alarm is shouting at her..."CLOSE THE FECKN DOOR"
Looks like it is a universal woman's thing..
As stated above.... drives me mad.

 

[Jewellbags]

Let woman cook - man operate fridge .

Neanderthal solution

 

[Toady]

How does that work then?

The MH is set up so the fridge works on battery with the engine switched off. This allows me to make the most of the sun on a good day.

 

[poppycamper]

Let woman cook

I do not have a death wish... as much as I dearly luv her Mrs Poppycamper falls Into the "Can't cook..Won't cook" category.

 

[Petehvan]

The Domec fridges are designed to operate at 20 degrees below the ambient temp outside , so if you are in temps above 30 degrees you will struggle., I have fans fitted as behind the fridge the temp will be higher than the outside temp. I have put a bag of ice at the bottom of the air intake at the bottom of the fridge, this has given some success. The fridges are designed so they work more efficiently on gas than electric.

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[Tombola]

Fans, ? where do we put them ?

 

[Minxy]

And I thot it was only Mrs Poppycamper who opened fridge door and spent ten minutes trying to decide what she wants to take out... even when door alarm is shouting at her..."CLOSE THE FECKN DOOR"
Looks like it is a universal woman's thing..
As stated above.... drives me mad.

Not met my hubby have you! He likes to rearrange the fridge contents which of course makes it less efficient than the way it was already sorted. As for the freezer ... he's finally learned not to pack it with fresh chicken breasts that then jam in permanently when they freeze so meaning he has to defrost the freezer or hack the breasts into pieces to get them out.

 

[Landy Andy]

38 here today. External fans, renewed the paste, and mesh removed from grills. Fridge at 6 degree’s. Happy with that.

 

[HKF]

The MH is set up so the fridge works on battery with the engine switched off. This allows me to make the most of the sun on a good day.

Mine will only work on battery when the ignition is on How can I get mine to make use of the solar, please? Or does this depend on the type of unit? I have a 3-way fridge/freezer. Thank you for any advice

 

[pwilmo]

Sorry to hijack the post and go off subject, but this could be related to tips.
Would it be possible to use solar to power the dometic threeway fridge as if it were being powered by the vehicle battery when driving.
Maybe the power system on the fridge from the vehicle battery is not efficient enough?
That would save tons of gas, any ideas Funsters?

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