anybody get refrigerators warming when driving?
The fact is that the RV propane systems were designed to use while traveling. If you are not comfortable in doing so, they by all means, only travel with it turned off. For those who do choose to travel with propane on, I sat in on a seminar about propane safety that was held at the Great American RV Rally (alias Good Sam) in June of 2003. The speaker was an expert witness and investigator for the insurnace industry, and the RV industry as well as the owner of a propane realted service company. He is nationally recognized as an expert. He stated that there have been no documented cases of the use of propane while traveling having had a significant effect on an RV disastor. All modern RVs are equipped with a "stop flow" valve that will close if a line should be ruptured. But that does not answer the problem of this thread.
quote:The refrigerator is not electric and it warms while functioning and while driving down the road. I believe its a gas absorption frig (so my family says). They said it's been cleaned well and nothing is obstructing. Any other thoughts?
Michasi
It sounds to me as though you may have a cooling unit that is failing. Have you ever smelled amonia around or inside of the refrigerator? Or have you seen any yellow powder in the rear of the refrigerator? The coolant for an absorbtion refrigerator is a mix of ammonia and distilled water. If it has either of those symptoms, it has very likely leaked at least part of the coolant. Amonia will also in time crystalize and block the passages of the cooling unit. Either will mean the replacement of the cooling unit. If the refrigerator is pretty old, you might be wiser to replace it with a new one as a new cooling unit will cost at least 1/2 of what a new refrigerator will and it won't have any warranty on any of the other parts that could fail.
How old is the refrigerator that you are speaking of?