Refrigerator Repair/Replacement

dougrainer wrote:

Grey Mountain wrote:
"Belly up" means no workee. On the fritz. Kaput. Cooling unit has stopped cooling.

This is a NORCOLD 1200L RIMD in a 2006 Fleetwood Discovery.
Error code as mentioned above is

no co

in small letters.
Owners manual says this means "cooling unit has stopped cooling."

There is a reset procedure, which I tried, to no avail. Manual says if one reset does not work, a second reset is not possible.

GM

1. The reset IS possible and can be done. By someone that knows how to do it
2. Cooling unit has stopped cooling. THAT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS BAD. NO CO is a cooling unit protection trip. If you are unlevel or you have blocked/poor ventilation, that can destroy a cooling unit. So, Norcolds have a NO CO protection. That means if the Cooling unit cannot do a proper cool down, it trips the NO CO and shuts the refer down. You have ONE TRY to reset. You turn the refer OFF for a few seconds and turn back on. IF YOU HAVE NOT FOUND AND CORRECTED THE NO CO PROBLEM, IT TRIPS THE 2ND "NO CO". That locks out the controls and you have to do a hard reset, then find and fix the problem that caused a NO CO. Now, if the CU is indeed bad, that also will cause a NO CO, but odds are it is another problem causing it. Doug

I saw that you can reset once, then it will lock itself out. So it's to the experts for me. Don't think we did anything any differently than we normally do. We usually run the generator for coach AC and of course the fridge. If not, it automatically switches to LP. Last trip, it did not switch to LP. When we got to our destination and connected to shore power, it worked fine. Left there and headed home, would not work on either LP or generator; however, when we stopped for the night, it worked on shore power. Got home and it won't work on anything, and that's when I got the code. So to the shop.
When it comes to mechanical and electrical things, I am a really good carpenter.

GM