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Residential refrigerator condensate drainage...

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

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Reply #1 –
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. 

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Reply #2 –
X2 what Jerry said.  The polybutylene line you are looking at is probably a water supply line for the old ice maker.

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Reply #3 –
Quote from: bigdog –
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 .

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Reply #4 –
Our Samsung RF18 has no drain line and has never overflowed—even in very humid Florida.

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Reply #5 –
Thank you all...

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