dougrainer wrote:
If it has been to the "shop" and they state it is good, WHAT ARE THE TEMPS THE SHOP REPORTED? The ONLY test for the lower section is a glass of water after 24 hours with the 120 element wired direct to 120 volts. THIS will tell you the condition of the cooling unit. The FREEZER will get extremely cold within a few hours but the lower section will take 24 hours. 24 hours is the required time. NO SHORTCUTS. If you have had the refer in the shop and told them about the failures, they should have told you the water temp after 24 hours hot wired. The Freezer should be 0 to 10 degrees after 24 hours. The lower section the water in the glass should be at least below 36 degrees. 36 to 40 is marginal and indicates a partially block Cooling unit. Anything above 40 degrees the cooling unit is blocked enough to prevent adequate cooling. Make sure the AC line voltage is above 115 volts. Doug
Hey Doug, it was my father in law who took it to the shop and he probably didnt ask them and I never knew to ask him. I will say the thing seems to cool down when the generator is running (that is the only 110 we have), but even having it plugged in and on AC when the generator is running it will still never get cool enough to be usable because we only run the generator at most a few hours at a time. We are at Oroville Lake in Northern CA, yes it gets hot, but there are TONS of people out there with propane refers that do not have this issue. If its the cooling unit, so be it, but I do not want to entertain replacement if this is going to just be the same issue with a new unit. Sure wish I could pull it again to see the results of that 24 hr test. Might be time again, maybe it just doesnt go back in. I just ordered 400watts worth of solar, maybe we just put a regular fridge in there and run it off the inverter, sucks though because that would probably put us equal to where we were other than the batteries being topped off when we get there.
