Thanks for the feedback. I'm still a little nervous about bypassing all electronics and safety on/off switches to wire directly to a 110v line. But Doug, you seem to be pretty sure that it would not damage anything. I could certainly put that 110v line on a timer and set the timer to cycle it off for 30 minutes every 3 or 4 hours. Also, someone mentioned the 12v refrigerator fuse. It may be that this thing does not work on 110v OR on 12v because a fuse is blown. All fuses in the converter panel are OK (those are ALL 15v fuses by the way). Would there normally be a 12v line fuse near the refrigerator, visible when I open the outside access panel? If there is one there, I'm not finding it. Seems like there would/should be one. Thanks again to all for helping me to think through this.
