How often do you shut off your Battery & Solar disconnects?

[New England Weekender]

In my Imagine TT, I have two disconnects in the storage control center. I recently got home from a short trip and my wife emptied the few items in the fridge leaving only a couple bottles of water. With no reason to keep the fridge cold, I put in a box of baking soda, opened the doors to both fridge and freezer and shut off the disconnects to the battery and solar. I installed a 30amp exterior siding mounted box for direct plug-in when home, so I also had to remove the cord in order to get the fridge light to turn off, despite the fridge temp gauge being cycled to off.

Any tips or suggestions? Is this overkill or am I doing part of this wrong? Our next trip isn't until late-June so it felt like wasting electricity just to keep 3 bottles of water cold for no reason. I'm always open to learn how to do things better. Thanks for reading.

 

[WhittleBurner]

Seems like alot of hoops to jump through just to turn off the fridge.. Makes me happy we have the old school propane/ele fridge

 

[coglesby]

I think you can just turn off the breaker if you figure out which one it is.

 

[Soundsailor]

In my Imagine TT, I have two disconnects in the storage control center. I recently got home from a short trip and my wife emptied the few items in the fridge leaving only a couple bottles of water. With no reason to keep the fridge cold, I put in a box of baking soda, opened the doors to both fridge and freezer and shut off the disconnects to the battery and solar. I installed a 30amp exterior siding mounted box for direct plug-in when home, so I also had to remove the cord in order to get the fridge light to turn off, despite the fridge temp gauge being cycled to off.

Any tips or suggestions? Is this overkill or am I doing part of this wrong? Our next trip isn't until late-June so it felt like wasting electricity just to keep 3 bottles of water cold for no reason. I'm always open to learn how to do things better. Thanks for reading.

Assuming you have a Furrion frig you can turn it off at the frig's control panel.

 

[lorend]

Maybe just a small piece of blue painters tape over the door switch?

 

[RV2600RB]

If you want to truly shut off your power, disconnect the negative battery cable.

I agree with whittleburner, we’ve only had gas/elect fridges in our campers and have no complaints.
Rich

 

[wmcgaughey]

Furrion/now Lippert, reports to fully remove power to the 12 volt fridge with solar, power sources from all sources have to be disconnected. Positive and negative. Shore, battery, and solar. Including fridge fuse.

 

[Totyour]

When we parked out TT, I went into the breaker box and switched off the breakers that I didn't need. (Fridge and microwave mainly.)

 

[finz04]

We’ve been towing for about 30 years, but this is our first season with both solar and a 12 volt fridge. Our AIM sits at a storage lot in between trips. Our “in-storage” routine is pretty simple. With our Dometic fridge emptied and cleaned it’s powered off at its control panel. Both the refrigerator door and freezer drawer latches have a mechanism built in for storage. Flip it and it holds each in a partial (very partial) open position for storage. We only have one battery disconnect (red key). Years of towing have taught me it doesn’t disconnect everything. So I leave it on. I also leave my solar on for charging. As a result my solar keeps my lithium battery topped off in between trips. Both the controller and the battery’s BMS protect against overcharging. I’ve got power if I need it in storage. The night before a trip I can drop by and turn the fridge on and it’s cooled down when we need to stock it. I have a thermostatically controlled vent fan and I’m thinking about setting it in storage to vent the trailer on hot days. I was frequently monitoring, but even with a couple of cloudy and rainy days the batteries status of charge has only dropped to 99 or 98% and goes back up to 100% the next time I check. I’m not suggesting that any of this is the correct or best way to do things, only that it works for me.