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Minimum startup time for fridge on propane

Yahoo Message Number: 1728
DW said, "no, we will turn it on when we pick it up at the storage
yard on Friday." I said, "no, we will go to the storage yard the day
before and turn it on or we will get to the track Friday (within two
hours of leaving the storage yard) and find like last time it is far
from cold.

Any views on minimum time needed to get it cold?

Don

Re: Minimum startup time for fridge on propane

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MY DW says "turn it on in the morning, and it is ready to put stuff in it in the afternoon," if that helps.

Denny

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Denny, ask her if that is "turn on the AC current" or "the propane?"


On 22-Sep-08, at 8:14 PM,

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Any views on minimum time needed to get it cold?

Hey Don, I bring mine over from storage and usually turn it on the night
before we leave, but I have waited until morning and it's been plenty
cold by late afternoon. I always plug it into the house and cool it on AC.

Take care,
Greg

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That is what we did when we had the pad behind the house. Now, driving bake and forth from the pad is over a gallon of gas each way - so we pick up and return to the storage yard and leave DW's car at the storage yard.

D

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On 22-Sep-08, at 9:25 PM, Greg Gimlick wrote:

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Both my old rig and the new one, has usually made it to full temp within 4 hours. But I live in WA where it never (thank Gods) gets that hot.
Morrigan

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Interesting. The first time we used it on propane was after we had stuffed it full of food items and found the power source was so low we couldn't use it. I think that is what caused the problem that trip as it took forever to cool down. Even running the gennie and using AC didn't seem to help - which was a surprise. Second trip we ran the gennie when shopping to start the cool down but even that didn't help for some reason. Not sure what to do Friday - but I'm still inclined to want to run it Thursday overnight. Of course that will require the 12V system to be turned on. Maybe I'll just do what DW tells me to do and start it Friday at the storage yard.

Tx

D


On 22-Sep-08, at 10:24 PM, W LEHMAN wrote:

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how old is it? It doesn't sound like it's working right.
Morrigan

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It is a 07 Greyhawk that we got in May 07.

D


On 22-Sep-08, at 10:36 PM, W LEHMAN wrote:

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look for evidence of a coolant leak, it sounds like your ammonia pressure is low...
Morrigan

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I'll check (where and how do I check?). Once it did start to work it really worked well and got very cold. The freezer would get down towards zero and the fridge was virtually at freezing.

Don


On 22-Sep-08, at 10:44 PM, W LEHMAN wrote:

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open up the outside door, look on the little tubes and the couple rather large tubes. Ammonia will cause a robins egg blue discoloration to white paint... (things I learned in Narcotics class, as ammonia is a precursor for methamphetamine production by the Nazi method and thus is probable cause for a warrant, and can by itself be a bust for having precursers in WA. if you don't have a reason to have it.)
Morrigan

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Don, there must be something wrong with your fridge. Ours cools to normal temps in approx. two hours - three max.I usually run it on propane that way I all I have to do is "hit" the road.

11K miles on our Greyhawk and no major issues..."Fingers crossed"

Rich Panganiban.

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Friday morning I'm going to turn it on as soon as we get to the
storage lot. This time we will put nothing in it until we get
finished shopping at Krogers near the track. That should be about 2
to 2.5 hours for it to cool down. Will let ya'll know how it goes
when we return Monday.

Thanks for all the comments guys.

Don
 

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I always turn mine on AC the night before the trip and its comletely cold. Last weekend I forgot to turn it on until that morning and it took about 4 to 5 hours to cool down. What helped was putting plenty of frozen food in the freeze section. and cold drinks in the refrigerator section. I think that might have helped cool it down faster. We live in Florida so I also run the air to help out to.

Brent