Refrigerator only works on shore power?
So my trailers refrigerator stopped working while dry camping this weekend. It will only work on shore power (120V), if I switch it to propane, the pilot light fires up it runs for about 2-4 minutes a...
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camperpaul wrote:
The flame detector (thermocouple) may be defective.
I support that theory, or the chip on the control board that reads the flame detector may be bad, or the wire that connects the two may have dirty connections.
On some systems (And frankly I do not know which our fridge uses) the thermocouple is a double duty device... For example on my furnace it is both the ignitiion point and the thermocouple.. This wears it out faster but.
During Ignition there is about 1,000 volts more or less on that point
During flame sense 0.480 (less than 1/2 volt)
If the change over goes wonkey that half volt detector gets hit with a kilovolt and zap, it's history.
On my furnace this happened (Or I suspect that's what happened) I repalaced the main control board with a Dinosaur board.
Dinosaur boards includes PROTECTION against just this kind of failure.
