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smsinville
Explorer
Oct 08, 2016

Refrigerator bypass electronics for direct AC power

I have a dometic RML8555 refrig. It worked on AC and DC, but not propane. Took into a shop and they said it needed to electronics panel at $600+, but the panel was on nationwide backorder ... would ...
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DrewE
Explorer II
Oct 08, 2016
The fridge does not have a 120V to 12V converter. If it's totally dead, that usually implies that it isn't getting 12V power. It may be the board, but more likely (since it was somewhat working previously) is that the 12V supply is interrupted.

Is the battery disconnect switch turned off? Is the 12V fuse for the fridge circuit good? Is/are the 12V fuse(s) in the fridge itself OK?

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