Vents or something for a Trakshak

Hi,

I'm no expert, but from our experience with fridges in the car and van, they need to breathe. The camper trailers we've seen that have fridges have had vents. To be honest, I'd be very surprised if your fridge would work well at all unless there was a vent. Let's see what others suggest.

Hi Wh33ls

I agree with chocoholic - vents would help it.

If you vent it to the outside you will create dust and water entry points that you will have to deal with.

If there's some empty space inside, you may be able to improve things by ensuring circulation of inside air is available to the fridge.

To address this problem in my camper I have installed water cooling to the condenser of my 130 litre front opening compressor fridge. It works a treat, reduces fridge power consumption by 30%-50% and the fridge no longer struggles in high temps. Same compressor as yours - Danfoss BD35.

Cheers

Frank

The question that I'd be asking is 'do I really need the fridge to be in my camper trailer'?

Our CT has no provision for a fridge and we happily travel with it in the rear of the 4x4. It's dead easy to access when we stop for a cuppa and with the Pajero rear door open it's all of two steps from the camper kitchen to the boot.

Disadvantage of in the car is that you may feel the need to move the fridge closer during stays of 3 or more and full of tucker they can be heavy.

Advantages of in the car are you constantly checking the fridge to ensure it's functioning and you know that it's safe in the boot.

Prior to our trip I had the local auto electrician install a second battery & now with the fridge happily doing it's job in the car we no longer hear it while we are trying to get to sleep.

Just a thought - Wayne

Hi
I have a 2005 Trak shak with 2 x 35ltr Waecos on the rack that sit on the front tailgate. in all of the years i have had it i have never had a fridge problem related to temperature and have travelled extensively spending most of my time in northern WA . There is sufficient airflow in the storage area for the fridges. I have however had issues related to low voltage due to the standard wiring to the fridge sockets, This was resolved after rewiring with 6mm auto twin core.
Hope this helps,
Mark