No. ;-) If outside temps are below 70, the fridge should stay cold or very cold. The fans should never come on. The aluminum fins should be below freezing. I set my thermostat at about 9-10 o'clock position and my internal temp will go to 32 or just below at night. With the thermostat at max, it will go down into the low 20s overnight. Maybe your thermostat is not working properly or your flame is too weak from the orifice or from low propane pressure. Worse case, the ammonia chemicals have caked up. See: http://www.rvmobile.com/TECH/TROUBLE/COOLDOC.HTM for more about this and troubleshooting. FWIIW: I didn't have success with a pair of Radio Shack computer fans. The fans ran much more--I mean MUCH more--than the old stock fan, and the fridge got warmer in the hot afternoons. I put in a Volterra replacement and now it behaves as before--the fan cycles on/off frequently on a hot afternoon, rather than running steady from 10am to 7pm. I don't know if the computer fans really don't move enough air, or if the pair had an interference pattern that didn't move the heat from the fins. Richard A Jones Boulder, Colorado |
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