Freezer cold, fridge warm

Try a battery operated fan in fresh food section. Worked for me since '78.

What's the temp outside? Is it facing the sun? Propane or electric? How long since you turned it on? Give it a good day (24hours) before getting too worried.

I hope you are right.
Camper sits in the afternoon shade with 108F around when I got freezer down to 24F.
The fridge is 95 as I keep it closed since morning.

Somebody has to be on moderators watch list. I see reply counted on main page, but not when I open the topic. It poops like 1 hr later

Freezer at 24f isn't working... Should be single digit or even below zero.

Put some water bottles in both compartments and wait another 12 hours or more. Could be a malfunction from running empty.

108 in the shade. Now that's campin'!

9 PM and fridge is down to 88F with camper still at 103.
So it is "cooling"
Will post what happens in the morning.
Thanks for guiding me via stressful moment.

At 108 with a absorption fridge don't open it for a week and see if it can get down to 50 in the fridge. :) Thats hot! With that kind of heat I believe you will have a very hard time keeping the fridge at a acceptable temp. If by chance you do need a new fridge I would suggest you look seriously at a 12 volt danfoss compressor fridge. I have had a chance now to use my new one extensively and could not be happier with it. Its ice cold no matter what the temp is. JMHO

Absorption frides use ONE cooling unit with TWO evap coils
Low temp Evap is for freezer
High temp Evap is for food compartment


Freezer is FIRST to get cooling effect.
The Cold ammonia vapor absorbs the heat.......freezer being first it gets the most heat absorbed so very little heat absorption is left for food compartment UNTIL freezer gets below 10*F THEN food compartment can begin getting colder cause the cold ammonia vapor has heat absorption capability.

Colder freezer gets the more heat can be absorbed in food compartment.
12 hrs for adequate cooling effect

RV level?
Critical for proper gravity flow of liquid ammonia thru absorber tubes back to boiler

And the inside of RV remaining HOT is a hindrance....especially if one keeps opening fridge doors..cold out HOT AIR IN

Mine is doing the same thing right now. Dometic garbage. We have had trouble with this unit since day one. Dometic is practically useless for customer service and the parts are incredibly expensive. The first week we had this thing the plastic freezer box brackets literally crumbled in our hands. The plastic is as brittle as chalk. The replacement parts were just as bad so I had to make my own. Same goes for the black plastic frame on the door front. The freezer door hinges, junk. The condensate cup turned to dust within a year. I could go on and on.

Our fridge has let us down on many many occasions. It can go for a week on LP and work fine then one day I'll open the fridge and it'll be 50 degrees. Sometimes the freezer quits and sometimes it doesn't. We always have to carry a cooler because the fridge is so unreliable. Works great on shore power. On gas it's a roll of the dice. We have invested over $300 trying to remedy the problem, not including the price of a cooler and multiple blocks of dry ice. The last time Dometic was contacted they wanted to sell me a part for $311. Add that to the $300 already wasted and I could have had a brand new unit.

We have good a good blue flame. Burner is clean. Cooling fan at the back of the unit is working fine. LP regulator has been replaced and the gas flow is exactly where it's supposed to be. Freezer is near zero and the fridge is at 80 degrees last time I checked.

If anyone has a solution PLEASE post it. Dometic can go pound sand.

Mike