tri5ron wrote:
... it will not relight it self when it should cycle back on. (I have verified this several times), by removing the interior temp sensor from the cooling fins, to make the fridge "think" it was warming up inside, and therefore time to RE-Light itself...
Thank you all for your VERY detailed suggestions and help. This is what makes the ORF such a great place to be.
OK,... so I THINK I have figured out what was going on with the fridge, (and if I am correct, I feel like such a dummy) :S :h
As you can see in my above quote from my original post,
I DID remove the internal temp sensor from the fins, to warm it up and simulate the fridge warming up and needing to re-light the burner...
BUT !,...
I did not use warm water or anything to make SURE it was REALLY getting warmer.
What I did was, I removed it from the fins, and warmed it up with my hands for a minute or so. I am NOW thinking that I did not get it as warmed up as I had originally thought.
In my (very weak) defense,... I will state that it was near midnight, I had been varmint hunting all day in the field, I was tired, hungry and not double checking my steps.
OK,... so you may ask,
"Ron,... So WHY do you NOW THINK the internal temp sensor was not
getting warm enough in your hand ?"
Well I'm glad you asked :B
This is not actually MY RV.
It belongs to a Senior Citizen friend of mine, who often relies on me to fix his "Stuff" whenever anything goes awry, ... (or he THINKS something is awry). This is usually only a day or two before he is trying to head out on a trip,...
he THINKS he has a problem,
he THINKS he is doing everything right,
he THINKS he understands the function or operation or system,
... and then he tries to work it (or "fix it") himself.
Lately, more often than not, I find that it is more his "operator error", (or complete lack of perception or understanding), that is actually the cause of a "problem".
(When will I ever learn to remember this :Z :S ) LOL
OK, So last night after driving home from my hunt, exhausted,
I met him at the RV.
He had it plugged into shore power all day to get the fridge cooled down on AC. The freezer was somewhere around 0 to -0 degrees, and I dont know how cold the fridge was, but it was also WAYYY TOOOO Cold. (maybe somewhere around 20 degrees).
He had told me he had "Tried Everything" but it would not run on gas. (again,... this is where I SHOULD HAVE remembered that he may not actually fully understand the equipment or it's operation),...
... certainly my bad.
So after spending about 45 minutes messing with it, doing my "hand warming thing" to the internal temp sensor, and only getting it to light manually,... I told him we were going to shut it all down, turn it off, leave the doors open for the night, go get some sleep, and look at it again in the morning.
This morning, with the entire fridge/freezer backup to around 70-75 degrees, I plugged into shore power. turned on the fridge power, set the selector to "Auto" and waited 10 minutes to allow the electrical element to start noticeably warming the flue housing.
Then I unplugged the shore power... and guess what ? ? ?
It immediately kicked over to gas, LIT ITSELF, and was burning just fine on gas with a clean pretty blue flame !
( Well IMAGINE THAT !)
SOooooo,... I plugged back in the shore power, and Waa-Laaa,...
... the flame goes out.
4 or 5 more times of plugging in and unplugging, and all functions just as it should.
(can you all see through the computer right now to watch me slapping my forehead ? ? ?)
So I SUPPOSE, that I apparently DID NOT have the interior temp sensor as warm as I THOUGHT it needed to be, and the only real issue was the fridge was just so darn cold that it would not light itself until it got a bit warmer than I had it.
Anyway,... I felt I owed it to you all to report back with these results. Thank you all for the help.
What do you all think about adjusting the Dinosaur Board's Temp adjustment, to make it so the freezer only goes down to 25-30 degrees, and just let the fridge end up at whatever temp that makes it?
My opinion is that the fridge never really NEEDS to get much colder than 35-40 degrees.
Your thoughts ?
