Fridge

We didn't when we moved ours higher so that it would come on sooner.  The clip attached to it keeps it quite secure.

Originally posted by Vector1952 Found out something bout raising temperature in rv fridge...based on outside temp and humidity and internal rv temp you can change the internal temp with the thermistor (the old name was the thermal coupler) it is a small sensor located on the left side of fridge and on the back plates...the idea is heat rises so if you raise the sensor up the sensor will tell the fridge that it isn't cold enough, run a little more therefore your fridge will be cooler...there is a screw holding the sensor so it must be removed...I have no more problems....hope this helps someone else....

Did you then drill a new hole for the screw to fasten the sensor in place?

Just realized you were talking about the sensor in back of the fridge..thanks

Originally posted by Vector1952 Hi, thanks for the explanation, I have a 2017 179...are the muffin fans outside behind the fridge on my slide? Will look for them...tnks

Yes, they are mounted to the back of the fridge.

After owning our 177 for 4 years we had a situation like yours where the fridge temp was too high (42) inside.  First thing noted was that the fridge side was facing west, where the sun was baking that side of the camper.  To alleviate some of that heat I removed both vent panels off the side which did help.  At this time I noted for the first time I had 2 muffin fans on the back of the fridge to move air across the panels, thus cooling the fridge as well.  Unfortunately the muffin fans never came on, even though the temp behind the fridge was 90 degrees.  I took off the thermal switch and made a jumper to see if they would even work, they did.  After that I took the thermal switch and place it higher on the back of the fridge where the temp would be warmer, that seemed to take care of the problem as the muffin fans would cycle on and off depending on the amount of heat behind the fridge, also the inside temp dropped significantly to where I was now comfortable with the safety of my food.  We were boondocking at the time, the amount of electrical drain on my battery was minimal, even after 2 days with the fans running a lot.  BTW we were using propane to cool our fridge.