The sensor should work ok in the trailer fridge, there is less metal to shield the signal. My sensor works fine in our fridge.
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Thanks bunches! - Jack |
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If you have the manual for the fridge look to see if there is any reference to the sensor/thermistor. I have seen lots of talk about it on the RV.Net RV and Camping Forum ? RV, Trailer, Camper, Motorhome, Camping and Campground Information
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Tow vehicle charge lines are notorious for having under-sized charge lines. For some reason the car companies use too small wire for the application. You say you checked and have power coming to the trailer which is good. Something that has happened is that your batteries have gone dead on several occasions, that's bad for them. That will essentially kill the life of the batteries, by now the damage has already been done. Put a good charge on them at home and let them sit idle overnight, then take them to a battery shop and have them tested. Two things you can do, run a heavier gauge wire from your TV or don't keep the fridge on all the time you are traveling. We rarely run the fridge while on the road for four hours or less, if everything is cold when you leave home it will stay cold for a number of hours.
If you have a good charge line and good batteries you should be able run all day with no problems. If you stop along the way shut off the fridge. If we stop for any length of time I park on a nearly level spot and raise the top and switch to gas. |
To add to Rich's post, Garry, it really sounds to me like your battery charging fuse in the tow vehicle has blown. I found this can easily happen, especially if you raise the trailer top with the trailer electrically connected to the tow vehicle and the engine running. The draw through the charging circuit then is very high. I went through 3 fuses when my trailer was new before I learned this.
If you haven't done it, apply a voltmeter to the battery charging pin and ground pin at the 7-pin plug on your tow vehicle with the engine running. You SHOULD see something in the neighborhood of 14V if that circuit is active. If you see much lower voltage, your charging circuit is not up to par, possibly due to undersized wires or corroded/loose connections. If you see zero volts, the fuse is blown. - Jack |
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Electrically challenged here . . . can a multimeter be used to perfom the check you mentioned? |
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You would need to turn the selector on the meter to the DC volts position and possibly set the "range" value to an up to 20 volt reading. Many multimeters now though are "auto ranging", so you'd just need to set it to DC volts. Hope I'm making sense - your meter should have a manual that will tell you how to set it up to read DC volts. - Jack |
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There is one other possibility - the charging circuit from the trailer tow plug to your battery is defective. This can be easily checked by electrically connecting the trailer to the tow vehicle, starting the tow vehicle's engine, and then checking the voltage across the trailer battery terminals. You don't have to have any electrical equipment on in the trailer when you do this. It should read your alternator output, which would normally be in the range of 14V. If it is below 13V, the tow vehicle is NOT charging the trailer batteries. And, if you turn on the refrigerator (and it's actually running) if the voltage across the terminals drops to below 12.7V, you are taking more power out of the batteries than they are receiving from the tow vehicle. I'm interested in what you find out doing this. - Jack |
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