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Originally Posted by JohnnyChaps

I had that issue with the refrigerator not running on propane in the higher altitudes. Once we got over 5,000 feet and we didn't have shore power, it was the generator or nothing. And in the national parks, we couldn't run the generator except for a few hours in the morning and evening.

Any hacks to keep the gas fridge running at altitude?

thanks!

There are smaller orifices available for high altitude. Different manufacturers may offer a high altitude kit. We've never retrofit a refrigerator though.

We've had intermittent problems at altitude. We had a trailer with a Dometic refrigerator that gave us some problems which seemed to get fixed by cleaning the ignitor electrode. The burner would intermittently fail to light. Our current ACE 30.1 has a Norcold refrigerator which has not given us any problems on gas...so far.