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The Todd & Tony Show
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Welcome to The Todd & Tony Show! We're here to chat all things outdoors, RV life, off-grid living, homesteading, solar power, and yes-even the occasional conspiracy theory! Brought to you by Big Beard Battery, this channel is your go-to for tips, laughs, and the inside scoop on living life free and healthy.
Join Todd, a master RV tech with a knack for keeping rigs rolling smoothly, and Tony, a sound engineer and "recovering" full-time RVer with a wife that has a love for organic living and, let’s just say, a tin foil hat collection. Each week, we dive into topics ranging from the practical to the peculiar, with fresh takes, expert insights, and a side of humor that keeps it real. So, if you’re here for off-grid hacks, conspiracy laughs, or a dose of RV wisdom-you’ve found your tribe! Hit subscribe, and let's get rolling! 🛠️🌱☀️
Join Todd, a master RV tech with a knack for keeping rigs rolling smoothly, and Tony, a sound engineer and "recovering" full-time RVer with a wife that has a love for organic living and, let’s just say, a tin foil hat collection. Each week, we dive into topics ranging from the practical to the peculiar, with fresh takes, expert insights, and a side of humor that keeps it real. So, if you’re here for off-grid hacks, conspiracy laughs, or a dose of RV wisdom-you’ve found your tribe! Hit subscribe, and let's get rolling! 🛠️🌱☀️
RV fridge in cold weather
Is your RV absorption refrigerator struggling in freezing temperatures? ❄️🛠️ In this episode of Todd's 2-Minute Tech Tip Tuesday, brought to you by BigBeardBattery.com, Todd explains why your RV freezer isn't staying cold while the fridge seems fine and shares practical tips to keep everything frosty in cold weather.
✅ Why Absorption Freezers Struggle in Cold Weather
✅ The Single Thermostat Problem
✅ How to Force a Cooling Cycle
✅ Tips for Insulating Your Freezer and Fridge
✅ Preventing Temperature Rise in Freezer
Chapters:
0:00 - Welcome to Tech Tip Tuesday 🛠️
0:14 - Why Absorption Fridges Struggle in the Cold 🥶
1:20 - How the Thermostat Affects Cooling ❄️
2:50 - Forcing a Cooling Cycle Manually 🔄
3:37 - Limiting Venting for Better Insulation 🛡️
4:08 - Using Frozen Food as a Cold Buffer 🍗
4:52 - Practical Freezer Management Tips 📦
5:16 - Ice Cream PSA 🍦😂
🔑 Key Takeaways:
Absorption fridges have one thermostat, located in the fridge, not the freezer.
In cold weather, if the fridge doesn't cycle, the freezer won't stay cold.
Manually trigger cooling cycles by briefly opening the fridge door.
Limit venting exposure to reduce cold air intrusion.
Keep solid frozen foods in the freezer to help maintain temperature.
💬 Got your own cold-weather RV fridge hacks? Share them in the comments below!
👍 Like this video, Subscribe, and hit the 🔔 Notification Bell for weekly RV tech tips from Todd!
#RVLife #TechTipTuesday #BigBeardBattery #AbsorptionFridge #WinterRVing #RVTips #ColdWeatherRVing #RVRefrigerator #RVFreezer
✅ Why Absorption Freezers Struggle in Cold Weather
✅ The Single Thermostat Problem
✅ How to Force a Cooling Cycle
✅ Tips for Insulating Your Freezer and Fridge
✅ Preventing Temperature Rise in Freezer
Chapters:
0:00 - Welcome to Tech Tip Tuesday 🛠️
0:14 - Why Absorption Fridges Struggle in the Cold 🥶
1:20 - How the Thermostat Affects Cooling ❄️
2:50 - Forcing a Cooling Cycle Manually 🔄
3:37 - Limiting Venting for Better Insulation 🛡️
4:08 - Using Frozen Food as a Cold Buffer 🍗
4:52 - Practical Freezer Management Tips 📦
5:16 - Ice Cream PSA 🍦😂
🔑 Key Takeaways:
Absorption fridges have one thermostat, located in the fridge, not the freezer.
In cold weather, if the fridge doesn't cycle, the freezer won't stay cold.
Manually trigger cooling cycles by briefly opening the fridge door.
Limit venting exposure to reduce cold air intrusion.
Keep solid frozen foods in the freezer to help maintain temperature.
💬 Got your own cold-weather RV fridge hacks? Share them in the comments below!
👍 Like this video, Subscribe, and hit the 🔔 Notification Bell for weekly RV tech tips from Todd!
#RVLife #TechTipTuesday #BigBeardBattery #AbsorptionFridge #WinterRVing #RVTips #ColdWeatherRVing #RVRefrigerator #RVFreezer
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Thank you, i think the back pressure reset is what has just happened to me. Given up and gone to bed with the oil rad but i will try turning the valve off in the morning.
Great info, thank you 👍
If it's 22 outside, put your cooler outside. That's plenty cold to keep your ice from melting. Here in Alaska, I call my back deck the "free freezer" for several months of the year. :)
Get those hand warmers they have at the checkouts and place it on the thermostat in the refrigerator.
“Eat the ice cream”! Best tech tip ever. Drop the mic.😂
Plug a light bulb in the back where the fins are and tape off one of the 3 vents on the plastic cover.
In my experience, absorption fridges struggle in all temperatures! 😉 But seriously, the 12v compressor fridges get colder faster and don't have to be kept nearly as level as absorption fridges do. I'm sure that many RVers have ruined their absorption fridge by operating it when it wasn't close to level. Of course, the catch is that you need sufficient power to operate a 12v compressor fridge.
My GE fridge DC 12V manual says at temperatures of _ < 50F, it will struggle to operate efficiently. And yes, at less than 50F, performance sucks. It basically barely works. Temps above 50F, works great.
I snuggle up to my wife with a blanket to keep warm. She's my electric blanket 😊
Unless you are in a area where there are Bears, put the freezer stuff outside in the 20 degrees during the night or even the daytime if it is could enough. I always wonder why folks whine about losing all there food during a power outage caused by an ice storm when it's cold enough outside to safe the food for a good while.
during winter ice storm outage friend at local electric company would ask caller "is your house equipped with an outside?"
I'm running my fridge on electric. I put some reflective inside the vent area outside
I will periodically fully charge with an external lithium batt charger, in addition to the on board Solar charger, till I get around to swap Converter. Unless that is a no-no!,
Great videos always and even better my two favs in one video, can I do my top charge with a battery charger that connects directly to the battery periodically? And if so how often should I do it.
Get a lithium charger, they are cheap in comparison, Or maybe you can reset your existing charger. Schiender C30, C40, C60. IOTA's have replaceable modules for battery type. Cost $25
False
Pfft perfectly fine is just not good enough. 24 volt is the way to.
Losing the will to live with batteries.
If you’re talking about an RV toilet system, most of the modern RVs and fifth wheel trailers have a “macerator“ that grinds up any solid waste matter so that it will not settle into a solid in the toilet tank and it will flow out freely when you dump your black water.OK that’s my opinion, people say I don’t know shit about shit, but I actually do.
Most??? I assume you work in the industry and have more contacts that I do? I assume you visit the OEMs and look at the models and work with the MFGRs? Most? No not most. Not even close. Most toilets offered in the RV space is still a standard RV toilet probably by a margin of 50 to 1. Now having a macerator is great, not against it at all. But your supposition of most have them is incorrect.
Miligdinium is a better battery than a magnesium 😅😅😅
Its all about the cathodes.
The longest life possible for a lithium battery is usually achieved by keeping the charge between 20% and 80% at any given time.
But you can't tell what the state of charge is between 20 & 80% without logging how much you have put into or taken out of it, the voltage difference is too small to use reliably, and you need to fully charge it to reset the 100% mark regularly so your SOC info is correct. Don't bother, just fully charge every time. Also, don't replace a lead acid with lithium without changing the charger, it has the ability to burn your alternator out because lithium will take everything your alternator can produce and can make it overheat. Get a charger with a lithium profile and a shunt to log the SOC.
This is true- however there is a big caveat- if you dont get the pack voltage high enough for the BMS to balance- which generally only occurs above 80% SoC, you will shorten the life of the pack
I didn’t hear exactly WHAT a person would switch over TO.
*2 brilliant minds.*
If you have a correct solar charger it should bring the charge level up over the 80 percent.
The acid battery charge controller will bring the lithium batteries to about 75%-80% and then the solar will take it from there and charge the batteries to 100% assuming you have clear sunny day. In my situation I have to run a power cord across the sidewalk in front of my house and go 30 feet to a porch 120v 15ampo power receptacle on the house. My HOA don't like cables going across the side walk for safety reasons. I have to put up orange safety cones and light up the area like a airport runway.
If you've got a small capacity lithium battery (100ah), with a 100 watt solar panel on the roof, the solar can top off the battery beyond the 13.6v you'll get from your lead acid charger/converter. This isn't the best solution. But it's a budget-friendly way to covert over to lithium (if you've already got a solar panel on the roof).
Just same here my solar would charge the lithium batteries to 100% but sometimes it won't charge to 100% when my RV is stored under a awning at a storage faculty, it only gets indirect sun light. On a cloudy day when my solar isn't getting enough sun m y batteries are not getting fully charge driving sown the road with our 12v fridge on. After a year of using my old existing acid battery controller I upgraded to a Lithium charger for around $150. I use 120v outside power to keep the batteries 100% before we hit the road.
If I have an older inverter/charger that does not have the ability to charge lithium, can I put in a DC to DC charger to increase the voltage for lithium charging? I guess I'd also need a second DC to DC charger for alternator charging. Is this a possible scenario?
A DC-DC charger is certainly capable of charging the batteries in your RV, but you need (1) wiring of an appropriate gauge, probably around 6-8 AWG and (2) with a stock alternator, 30-40 amps is probably the most that you can safely draw from your tow vehicle without risking damage to your alternator. But for possibly less than the price of all that, just upgrade your converter/charger to one that can properly charge lithium batteries. Now, if you actually do have an inverter/charger, there's a good chance that it can be programmed to charge lithium batteries correctly.
@@calledtojourney This is on 1995 Class A diesel pusher with a 160 amp alternator. The inverter charger is so old that all it has are DIP switch settings for LeadAcid or AGM only. Yeah, I'm shopping for an inverter upgrade, but if there's less costly way to do it for now, I'd like to explore that too.
@@sammysnit1688 Well, if you got 30 years of use out of it, you're already ahead of the game!
This reminds me of the legend of the poop pyramid. It is said the Poop pyramid is the final resting place for the lesser known brother and royal heir of King Tutankhamun. King Pootankhamun. Though the tomb of Pootankhamun has never been found, it is rumored that while other Egyptian pharaohs, including King Tut, chose granite to be the material from which their burial sarcophagus were carved from. Pootankhamun was said to eschew this tradition of his predecessors and ordered that his sarcophagus to be constructed of gleaming white porcelain. On a historical side note, while current consensus credits China with the creation of porcelain. Recent archeological discoveries in the Egyptian desert including fragments of porcelain, point to evidence that porcelain was first created in ancient Egypt nearly 30 centuries ago .Only rediscovered by the chinese some 2500 years later. ( ;
With a 12 volt system,,, and a 24 volt battery. Would I not fry my system, .
Excellent! Thank you!
I'm not sure about your comment but does that imply that you're not flushing your tank once or twice takes more than 5 minutes
Thanks I live fulltime in RVPark. WiFi is included. According to my Roku tv the signal strength signal is poor. The download speed is good (15 MBPS). The router is at the front of the park. I am in the rear. They put up a booster in between us and the router but it’s still poor. I am under a metal carport cover. Bedroom is in the front facing their booster, tv in bedroom has fair signal strength. What can I do to enhance the signal?
It's amazing how long it takes many people to dump their tanks. Its a 5 min job ! So why do people stretch this job into 1/2 hour to 40 minutes. Whats going on with these people.
Lots of poo vids on Christmas. You need to add a little Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo to your videos. 🤪 Merry Christmas.
How do you clean an AC if the roof can’t be walked on? I have a small 23 foot pull behind travel trailer and was told it can’t be walked on. Do you have a 2 minute tech tip for that? Please say yes. 😊
No Christmas Pyramid. Merry Christmas to the Big Beard Nation!
What causes the water pump to surge when running?
Thank you. I wanted to know one simple question. Should I add distilled water only or distilled water and battery acid (sulfuric acid)?? Most of these videos and generally all these Mr. Fixit videos have one gigantic problem. Video maker speaker wants to be a MOVIE STAR. We are watching videos to fix a problem. It would be far better if we only see equipment to be used, tools, things needed and thing to be fixed rather than speaker’s face. The viewer wants to get his question answered. To maintain the battery you need a battery tester, distilled water and sulfuric acid. Just ask for sulfuric battery acid at the Auto Zone or O’Reillys. Call around some carry it. Some do not. Thank you.
The pepper response using your line of reasoning is the viewer wants free info instead of taking the time to learn for themselves and this are LAZY. This guy will never be a star nor do I desire that. I’m using the skills and abilities to help others as that’s how I learned myself. I think your comment can stop at thank you. And my response is thank you for your kind response.
Okay, I have to ask. Where did you get the toy truck and trailer? Look for my grandson.
You say we can get it at WalMart for 96¢ but I certainly can't find anything, in-store or online, for less than $6 - $11. Providing a link would be nice.
Have you seen a doctor recently? You seem to be breathing very hard in this video.
I wish my inner shroud was that easy to remove! I have Coleman ACs, each shroud has about 15 little screws and I have to cut and replace the AC tape every time!
Yea it's kind of a pain.
How do you clean an AC if the roof can’t be walked on? I have a small 23 foot pull behind travel trailer and was told it can’t be walked on. Do you have a 2 minute tech tip for that? Please say yes. 😊
Buy two LiFePo batteries ($500/260aH). Wire pair in parallel and hook up an AC charger and 2000 watt inverter. Easy to stow the system away and you can power your space heater worry free full blast for 4 hours, 8 hours at half power, plus more hours if the heater cycles on and off. You can make it through the night without worry you are stressing your RV wiring and recharge when your solar panels are working. It is about $1300 to rig, but it will last a decade or so. Your stock RV system will be out of the loop.
I have a question in a 50a travel trailer is it possible to wire a 240 outlet for an induction cooktop.
Hay buddy I need to ask I have the little 1lb tanks so pretty much all the things you talk about here don't work for me but i was thinking I am going to try a pair of heated socks to heat the tanks do you think this will work
Thanks for the vid! Can't wait for pt 2!!
Didn't work.
Are you white Neil DeGrass Tyson?
great video
Another reason to never place your battery upside down is: all the power will fall out. How do I know this? Well, while Newton had an apple fall on his head, I had a battery fall on my head.
Is it just me or is the audio out of sync in this video?
Just you there. Was only weird in the first second of the video
@@blaketaylor1772 Thanks. Turned out it was my audio interface - a setting (it annoyingly delays the desktop audio when the latency is set high). D'oh.