justintime420
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does anyone own one? How cold can they get?
I had one in my old vw camper. It sucked big time. It could do 30 below ambient so when it was 100f out nothing was cool in the fridge. I am sure modern ones are better.
That was a propane heated ammonia refrigerant refrigerator. They also had to be relatively level to work well and stank badly of ammonia when the cores failed.
They now also make refrigerators using propane as the refrigerant, more common in Europe than here, and I've never personally used one.
Perhaps one of our European brothers will chime in.
I have lived off grid my whole life have been around propane appliances the whole time, there are completely legal but expensive.
The reference was to propane as refrigerant, not as fuel.
So quick to knock. He was referencing to a propane cooled refrigerator, which I have never seen any refrigerator use "fuel". Only refrigerant. Maybe you should have read & pondered on his post a lil more before jumping the gun?
propane appliances being expensive, living off-grid, added insulation to fridge were all key words in deducing this conclusion... But I too have been wrong in the past.