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etrailer | Comprehensive Review: Valterra FridgeCool Automatic Exhaust Fan for RV Refrigerators

Click for more info and reviews of this Valterra RV Refrigerators: https://www.etrailer.com/Accessories-... Check out some similar RV Refrigerators options: https://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Acce... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-review-va... Hi there, RV and camper owners. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install Valterra's RV FridgeCool automatic exhaust fan for refrigerators. We're here on the outside of our motorhome here. This is the compartment, where it's the back of our refrigerator here and this is where we've got our fan installed. Now, it can be mounted in a lot of different orientations, depending on your particular RV. If you've got an outside vent like this, where you have access to the coils, you can put it right back here and blow through those. Maybe your refrigerator's on the inside and you don't have an outside cover, you could put it on the floor and exhaust the air from the back of the fridge down. You could also have potentially a vent, that's already preexisting, that goes up out of your fridge. You can put this in line on that vent to help assist the air in getting out of your system. So, there's just a lot of different ways. Or you could have it just come straight out the wall and push it right out the back here. We're using ours in a pretty neat setup here. It's almost like a nice recirculation setup 'cause this fridge has a lower compartment vent cover and it also has an upper compartment vent cover. So, we we're able to install our fan in the lower compartment to help assist that heat in rising up out of our compartments 'cause heat naturally wants to rise, so let's try and get that heat out of here. Removing heat, from the condenser side, of any refrigeration system is gonna allow it to work more efficiently. On our condensing side, we wanna take refrigerant and squeeze it really hard and then we will try to cool it down by blowing air across it to turn it into a liquid. If it's too hot here in the back, it can struggle to condense that refrigerant down to a liquid and then the system won't work at all. Or if it is able to bring it down to a liquid but your temperatures just aren't where you want them to be, the system won't be as efficient 'cause the whole system's really designed about transferring heat in and out. And if we have too much heat back here, then we can't take it out of what we're cooling on the inside. Making our refrigerator more efficient is gonna help us in a lot of different ways. If your refrigerant system here runs off of propane, if you're using propane for your fridge, you can save on how much propane you're using. All of this is going to ensure that your food in your refrigerator stays fresher longer and we've got a nice, cool beverage whenever we need one on those hot days. Our fan here has an output of 12 1/2 CFM. That's cubic feet per minute, and that's the amount of volume of air that we're moving through our system here. And that should be enough to get that heat out of a stagnant spot like this and out of the unit. And that's really the big goal, is to keep the heat that's stay and stagnant in here and just building up and getting it out of there. Getting a little bit of fresh air in there makes a huge difference in the end. The built-in thermostat here will turn the fan on when the interior temperature around it is at about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It'll then try to exhaust as much of that heat out of there as possible. And once the temperature has returned down to about 80 degrees, the fan will then kick itself back off again. And it's also gonna prolong the life of your system here. Because if we remove heat outta here, our refrigerator doesn't have to work as hard as it did before. So, if it doesn't have to work as hard, that's just gonna prolong, too, longer life for all of our components, particularly our compressor in there. Now that we've covered some of the features of our fan, why don't you follow along with us and we'll show you how to get it installed. We'll begin our installation by locating our refrigerator and its existing outdoor vents because it has to exhaust that hot air outside somewhere. Now, the location is gonna vary pretty drastically, depending on your motorhome. You could have vent covers on the outside like we do here. We just took this cover off and this goes right to our refrigerator here. You really just need to assess your particular motorhome and figure out where it's located. Once you found your refrigerator's exhaust and where you're going to be placing your fan, you need to figure out a mounting location. So, if you had a ductwork that ran up to the roof, a lot of times, this is actually the right size to where it w