RV Refrigerator Troubleshooting: Overcooling
Dave SolbergDescription
An important part of creating a comfortable living situation in your RV, is to have a working refrigerator to store all of your food and beverages. RV refrigerators, designed to make the best use of available storage space in an RV, have many different systems that are used to make sure everything is running smoothly and the refrigerator is at the desired temperature.
There is, however, a list of things that could go wrong with your RV refrigerator and you may at some point need to do some RV refrigerator troubleshooting. One of the most popular RV refrigerator troubleshooting questions involves overcooling of the refrigerator, or even freezing.
In this video, watch as this common RV refrigerator troubleshooting question is discussed. Learn what sort of things to look for when you suspect overcooling or notice freezing inside of your refrigerator. There are many things you may be able to fix yourself, but if your temperature sensor is broken, it may need to be looked at further by a professional.
Learn more about refrigerator freezing and overcooling in this educational RVing video, and make sure you are prepared for the next time something goes wrong and you need to do some RV refrigerator troubleshooting yourself.
If you're experiencing overcooling or freezing inside your refrigerator, the first thing you wanna look at is to make sure that the gasket around the door is making a seal. If you have any kind of air leaks that are coming into that, it's gonna start to frost and will freeze inside that unit. The next thing is to look at the thermistor. If it's set really high, this is your temperature sensor, it's going to probably be sensing the hotter air up at the top. You wanna bring it down just a little bit. You may have bad air flow inside as well. If you've blocked any of the shelves and you're not getting good air flow in it, it's gonna have pockets and that's gonna keep more warm air up towards the top. So if it's freezing, check your temperature, check where your thermistor is at. And then, after that, if it's still freezing, then you probably have something wrong in your temperature sensor that's allowing that cooling unit just run wide open all the time. And, again, that's something then you're gonna have to take in and have diagnosed further.
Could you please send me a picture of where the thermistor goes on the little plastic slide mine has no wire on it how does it regulate the temperature
Could you please send me a picture of where the thermistor goes on the little plastic slide mine has no wire on it how does it regulate the temperature
My fridge freezes up within a couple of days even with the thermistor set low on the fins. Any suggestions?