At 09:48 AM 7/3/2001, Ron Salmon wrote:
>It DOES get cold on 110v power, but not on propane or, it appears, 12v.
>Nothing obviously appears to be wrong when taking it out and inspecting it..

If it works on 110v then 1) the refrigerator itself works and 2) you could
get an inverter to power it from 12v -- it only takes 85 watts.  If you're
going from plug-in to plug-in this would keep you going while on the road.

The 12v problem is either bad fuse, bad wiring, bad switch, or bad heating
element.

The propane problem is bad flame -- dirty flue, dirty orifice, junk in the
burner chamber, gas pressure too low (should be 11" water column).

>Does anyone have any ideas what it could be? If we can't get it figured out
>in the next few hours, we'll have to do without the fridge for our camping
>trip.

Was me, I'd get an inverter for fallback and then spend whatever spare time
I had chasing the other stuff.

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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