Fridge flame blowing out during travel

[anijet]

Anyone have a cure for the flame going out during travel. AC and gas both work great while parked, on setting 5 it holds 33*. I'm experimenting with a foil shield around the gas orifice and flame box and the last short leg it seemed to work but I'm not convinced. Have had to throw out food twice this trip. Any tips?

[Gemstone]

Wow, no clue....5 years of traveling and that has never happened.

Interested to know how your "field engineering" works.

Gemstone

[terry and jo]

Not sure I could help with the "flame-out" circumstance, especially without seeing how you created your current "fix." However, does you fridge really need to be on "5" to maintain 33 degrees? We are here in the the heat of Oklahoma (record broken this year for number of days over 100) and need to stay close to "5" ourselves. Prior to it heating up, our refrigerator maintained 34 while setting on "3".

Terry

[Jim Keefer]

Not sure your problem is associated with ours, but since we have added the fan ordered on ebay, I had to turn ours down to "2" and it stays a constant 31-32 degrees inside fridge.. I also have a computer fan on the outside top to pull the hot air out with an on/ff switch, off in the winter and on during the summer.. I have it mounted at a 45 degree angle to push hot air out the vent!! It has been a 108-110 degrees here in Nevada!

[anijet]

I have it on 5 mostly for trobleshooting. I want it to be in cooling mode as much as possible. We were in Tulsa for 4 nights and one day it was 107* with more humidity than we are use to. Today we traveled from Tulsa to Branson. The fridge started out at 34* and was 48* when we arrived. About a 4 hour trip. I pulled the lower cover when we set up and felt the burner can. It was hot like a hot oven. I didn't remove my foil shield to visually check the flame but I'm convinced it was burning. It's around 8pm and it's down to 34*.

Before we left on this trip I installed two new thermal disc switches on the condensor coil to control both exhaust fans mounted horizontal between the upper and lower vent covers. Both fans run most of the time since the new switches are 100*F. I also bought an inside fan to help circulate the inside air past the cooling fins which should aid in bringing down the temp quicker.

Since this problem seems to have started after installing the new thermal switches I think I will disable the exhaust fans for the next leg and see what happens. I didn't think this could be the reason because these fans should run any time the unit is cooling and the condensor is hot, traveling or not.

[anijet]

The last three travel legs, Tulsa to Branson and round trip to the RV Fog Dr, I disconnected both external fans. The temp stayed below 36* each time. With the fans running the air must conflict with the outside airflow during travel and disrupt the flame. I've now installed a switch so I can enable or disable the fans for travel. Any theories?