Portable fridge users - heads up

[trailhunter]

New dometic fridge owner, I started monitoring the actual temp vs reported fridge temp on its display. It's off by ~10 degrees monitoring the ambient temperature. This is a 3/4 full fridge.

You'll notice the spikes, this is the fridge kicking in the compressor to keep temp.


I did notice the wall near the probe reports near the display, to keep your fridges ambient temp, you'll need to adjust the temp difference according to your requirements, theres a fine line of where items start freezing at the bottom to get your ideal fridge temp, something you need to consider as well.

 

[The other Sean]

How are you measuring the temp?

 

[trailhunter]

How are you measuring the temp?

Sensorpush sensor strung down in middle of the fridge, then moved it to a permanent location on the fridge door once I noticed no variance in temp.

 

[MazeVX]

Is the fridge empty? If so ignore your measurements, load it up half and do it again. Fridges don't work well without energy storage.

 

[trailhunter]

Is the fridge empty? If so ignore your measurements, load it up half and do it again. Fridges don't work well without energy storage.

3/4 full.

All I'm trying to convey in this thread is dont trust the fridge temp readout. Everyone's contents will differ :)

 

[MazeVX]

I did more or less the same with my fridge wich is, in my opinion, a clone of dometic...
And get really unstable results and the fridge readout was way of, once it was loaded it was only 2°C off and pretty stable.

 

[trailhunter]

I did more or less the same with my fridge wich is, in my opinion, a clone of dometic...
And get really unstable results and the fridge readout was way of, once it was loaded it was only 2°C off and pretty stable.

I'll stuff it all the way with random goodness and will report.

 

[The other Sean]

Sensorpush sensor strung down in middle of the fridge, then moved it to a permanent location on the fridge door once I noticed no variance in temp.

If the sensor is just hanging in the middle or not attached / in something with mass, you will see swings and inaccuracies. What you are reading is the air and not the mass of the fridge itself.