Nolan&Pat

Nolan&Pat · 06-30-2019, 07:58 PM

We have an exterior kitchen on our White Hawk 2018. The small refrigerator never turns off. Hooked up to 30 amp at a site, this is fine. When on the road or overnighting without electricity, we assume it is running off the trailer battery and, if still plugged in, our truck battery. When on the road, we assume it is running off our car battery which had been giving us a "low" reading. Why is there no way to turn this refrigerator off...or is there and we are missing it? Also, there is no temperature control. We are new at this and need help.

skids · 06-30-2019, 08:07 PM

From memory...With our Norcold fridge, the left knob selects electricty, gas, or off. The middle knob is for intensity for electricity or off. The right knob is for intensity for gas or off. I suspect you need to turn off the fridge with the left and center knobs. To prevent running with electricty.

**Midnightmoon** · 06-30-2019, 08:13 PM

If it is like the outside fridge in my Feather, it is AC only and runs only when on shore power. The temperature adjustment is on the back left corner of the unit as you are facing it from the rear. If you have a rear bunkhouse model, lift the lower bunk and there should be a small access door where you can reach in there and adjust the temp. It is very tight in that area and it is much easier for someone with small hands or even a child to reach. I send my teenager in there to adjust it when needed.

I wasn't aware that any of the outside units from Jayco would run off of gas.

Nolan&Pat · 06-30-2019, 08:16 PM

Hi skids. Our outside kitchen refrigerator only has PD on the front and no other identification. It has no knobs. It seems to have no controls anywhere. We took a panel off on the inside the trailer (well really it fell off) and that gave us a view of the back side the the outdoor kitchen refrigerator so we could see that it is plugged into electricity there. But, we would have to install a door rather than the piece of compressed particle board (about 1/8 niche thick) so as to be able to turn the refrigerator on and off by unplugging it. Really a cheap deal. We've had a lot of our trim and these cheap boards with nothing substantial behind them come loose and fall off too. We are hoping there is some other solution.

Nolan&Pat · 06-30-2019, 08:29 PM

My husband says there is really no plug visible, only a cord to the refrigerator that seems to be wired into an electricity box. There is one control that has no informational directions on it which is on the back of the refrigerator, but if turned we assume it must control something. We don't have a clue what and we'd have to remove that panel just to test it. Since the refrigerator stays cold all the time whether we are hooked up to electricity or not...it must be connected in a way that is always on battery power. The refrigerator is anchored down to the flooring in the slide-out kitchen so pulling it out for a better look is difficult too. Our main concern is running down our trailer and our truck batteries...which seems to have occurred to some extent already.

**Midnightmoon** · 06-30-2019, 08:29 PM

If it has PD only on the front, it is as I described in post 3. It is an AC only fridge. The control knob will be in that lower left rear corner and the only easy way you can turn it off is to unplug it. Can you post a picture of where that wire is running. All of the outside kitchen units I have seen have a separate 120v AC outlet dedicated to that outside fridge. In the case of my 2017, it is connected to the ground fault circuit.

With that said, if it is the unit that I am thinking about, that fridge will not run off 12 volt power and should not be draining your battery.

Again, if you can post a picture, it will help us help you.

RedHorse1 · 07-01-2019, 07:11 AM

Your outside fridge is probably a “dorm fridge” and runs on AC only. Unless you have an inverter (produces 110V AC from your battery’s 12V DC) the little fridge is not using the battery.

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