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Title: Residential refrigerator condensate drainage...
Post by: TGordon on June 30, 2022, 11:02:02 pm
I am installing a residential refrigerator in my 1996 U320. There appears to be a condensate drain line (polybutylene) in the refrigerator compartment. Should I utilize that line or depend on the refrigerator's built in condensate system?

Tim
Title: Re: Residential refrigerator condensate drainage...
Post by: bigdog on July 01, 2022, 12:50:44 am
Modern fridges don't use a drain line in the same way the RV type does. There is a catch basin underneath a res fridge that is close to the compressor and that hot compressor causes the drainage water to evaporate. 
Title: Re: Residential refrigerator condensate drainage...
Post by: Chuck & Jeannie on July 01, 2022, 08:16:01 am
X2 what Jerry said.  The polybutylene line you are looking at is probably a water supply line for the old ice maker.

Title: Re: Residential refrigerator condensate drainage...
Post by: Protech Racing on July 01, 2022, 11:30:53 am
Modern fridges don't use a drain line in the same way the RV type does. There is a catch basin underneath a res fridge that is close to the compressor and that hot compressor causes the drainage water to evaporate. 
Right. I have never seen any sign of it overflowing .
Title: Re: Residential refrigerator condensate drainage...
Post by: D.J. Osborn on July 01, 2022, 11:59:50 am
Our Samsung RF18 has no drain line and has never overflowed—even in very humid Florida.
Title: Re: Residential refrigerator condensate drainage...
Post by: TGordon on July 01, 2022, 02:02:03 pm
Thank you all...

Happiness is not having to to worry about condensate.....