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Originally Posted by blw2

yes, there's very likely some funny wind currents taht affect these things... back drafting and the like... while driving. It could be just the controller not functioning "correctly" because of them... but I can believe it possible the the fridge operates out of acceptable range just due to wind currents, crosswinds, "blocakages", etc.....

side track, but did you find the solution to your problem? Yes, 3 days is a problem.... well I don't know about in extreme desert temps, but generally that seems like a problem... mine cools down "enough" in just a few hours.... and very well just over night.

The solution to my problem was a small battery operated fan inside the refrigerator. The problem for me was a lack of air circulation on the inside coils. After putting the fan in the fridge cooling time went from 3 days down to about 3 hours. This is the link to the fan I purchased.

FridgeCool Fan with On/Off Switch - Valterra A10-2606 - Refrigerator Accessories - Camping World

One set of D cell batteries is all I have ever used and I still use it when cooling the residential fridge in the Challenger (still on the initial Duracell batteries). Not sure if it helps, but heck I have it why not use it.

As a note: the fan would be turned on when I started the fridge cool down and get turned off when the fridge was turned off after the trip. One trip was three weeks long and a couple were two weeks long. As an additional note, I had the large Dometic 4 door fridge/freezer with ice maker in that class C.