Dometic S819 Gas Refrigerator Question
I have the S819 Dometic unit in the RV I recently bought and it doesn't work on either gas or electric. I cleaned the orfice and I'm getting a good flame and the pipes heat up but no cooling, and the...
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Thanks guys,
Here is what I've done so far on the gas operation. Cleaned flu, cleaned orfice, have good blue flame about 3/8" high. The tubes going up the side got very warm when I had it running after about 4 hrs. but no cooling inside. I think I left it on all night but don't remember cause I quit working on it to change the shower fixtures which required me to pull the fridge out...geez!! what a job that was. Got the fridge back in and hooked up so I will do these two tests as you suggested.
I don't think it's the cooling unit because when I went to the NASCAR races in April I started the gas when we hit Waco and when we got to the track which was about 3 hrs. later I checked the fridge and it was cold, not real cold but cold..the problem is that after we got set up and I leveled the RV the gas was still on and it warmed back up. It has also gotten cool a couple of times when I ran it on gas but never has gotten real cold inside.
If I have a good heating element and wire it directly to 120v for 24hrs will that guarantee me that the cooling unit is bad. It sounds like that bypasses everything else, is that correct.
Thanks again for all your help, and if I have to change the cooling unit it shouldn't be too bad cause I already have had the fridge out once. I just want to be sure before I spend $500.
Here is what I've done so far on the gas operation. Cleaned flu, cleaned orfice, have good blue flame about 3/8" high. The tubes going up the side got very warm when I had it running after about 4 hrs. but no cooling inside. I think I left it on all night but don't remember cause I quit working on it to change the shower fixtures which required me to pull the fridge out...geez!! what a job that was. Got the fridge back in and hooked up so I will do these two tests as you suggested.
I don't think it's the cooling unit because when I went to the NASCAR races in April I started the gas when we hit Waco and when we got to the track which was about 3 hrs. later I checked the fridge and it was cold, not real cold but cold..the problem is that after we got set up and I leveled the RV the gas was still on and it warmed back up. It has also gotten cool a couple of times when I ran it on gas but never has gotten real cold inside.
If I have a good heating element and wire it directly to 120v for 24hrs will that guarantee me that the cooling unit is bad. It sounds like that bypasses everything else, is that correct.
Thanks again for all your help, and if I have to change the cooling unit it shouldn't be too bad cause I already have had the fridge out once. I just want to be sure before I spend $500.
