Cak family
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Hello RV community! Have a question about our dometic RV refrigerator that is going crazy at the moment.
Our family had arrived in Tennessee early on Thursday and noticed that our refrigerator which we had put on electric was not cooling anything. What was happening was that the electric would just shut off and the entire frigerator would shut off. I looked around on YouTube and took a look at the fuse panel inside which did not have any blown fuses, and then I went to the outside and removed the back panel off of the refrigerator and the fuse Box in the back did not have any blown fuses as well. I unplugged our 120 V cord from the refrigerator and tried to see if there was a short in the electrical outlet.
I tested the circuit and we did have power. I switched it from electric to propane and the propane did go on without any problems and did stay on. In the morning we noticed that the refrigerator was not getting cool nor was the freezer so unfortunately we had somebody come out who was local and take a look at it for us. Now I am a typical Di y'er and did the best I could to troubleshoot and I even got the thermal coupler reset switch pushed which actually did restart the electric, however it automatically shuts off from electric after about 10 minutes. When we switch it's a propane it does stay on and the boiler does seem to get hot from the back however it is just not cooling either way from gas or electric. The guy we had come out said that it is possible that it was the Heating element so before I decided to buy the part I wanted to make sure and see if anybody else was having a similar issue because the guy said he checked for continuity , and
he checked all of the appropriate wiring and it seemed like everything was working OK.
So in conclusion each time that we reset the thermal coupler button the refrigerator does go back on and we can turn it on either electric or propane. If it's staying on electric then after about 10 minutes it shuts off altogether. Running it on propane we don't seem to have an issue with the flame starting because I can see it and throughout our trip to Florida it had been on the entire time however the refrigerator just is not cooling either way. I have checked the thermister, it is in the upward position on the cold part in the refrigerator and it seems to be working OK because prior to Thursday we had no issues with the frigerator.
What we don't know is that if there is anything else that could be wrong with it before we end up taking it in to our dealer but since we are still in Florida I'm just trying to troubleshoot as much as possible to save some money.
Our family had arrived in Tennessee early on Thursday and noticed that our refrigerator which we had put on electric was not cooling anything. What was happening was that the electric would just shut off and the entire frigerator would shut off. I looked around on YouTube and took a look at the fuse panel inside which did not have any blown fuses, and then I went to the outside and removed the back panel off of the refrigerator and the fuse Box in the back did not have any blown fuses as well. I unplugged our 120 V cord from the refrigerator and tried to see if there was a short in the electrical outlet.
I tested the circuit and we did have power. I switched it from electric to propane and the propane did go on without any problems and did stay on. In the morning we noticed that the refrigerator was not getting cool nor was the freezer so unfortunately we had somebody come out who was local and take a look at it for us. Now I am a typical Di y'er and did the best I could to troubleshoot and I even got the thermal coupler reset switch pushed which actually did restart the electric, however it automatically shuts off from electric after about 10 minutes. When we switch it's a propane it does stay on and the boiler does seem to get hot from the back however it is just not cooling either way from gas or electric. The guy we had come out said that it is possible that it was the Heating element so before I decided to buy the part I wanted to make sure and see if anybody else was having a similar issue because the guy said he checked for continuity , and
he checked all of the appropriate wiring and it seemed like everything was working OK.
So in conclusion each time that we reset the thermal coupler button the refrigerator does go back on and we can turn it on either electric or propane. If it's staying on electric then after about 10 minutes it shuts off altogether. Running it on propane we don't seem to have an issue with the flame starting because I can see it and throughout our trip to Florida it had been on the entire time however the refrigerator just is not cooling either way. I have checked the thermister, it is in the upward position on the cold part in the refrigerator and it seems to be working OK because prior to Thursday we had no issues with the frigerator.
What we don't know is that if there is anything else that could be wrong with it before we end up taking it in to our dealer but since we are still in Florida I'm just trying to troubleshoot as much as possible to save some money.