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07-08-2019, 04:08 AM
Forgive me as I don't have the part number of the fridge in question.
Anyway, we went camping this past weekend, and prior to camping I did my usual...brought trailer home, plugged into house power with adapter, and started the fridge. Typically I just run it on propane because it cools better, but this time I thought I'd go with AC for a couple hours while I did other stuff. Did that, came back and it was cooling pretty good, but I switched it to propane anyways, since we were headed out the next day.
Loaded it up and did what I normally do before leaving, flipped off the main breaker in the trailer. Look over, fridge still running, disconnected from house power, everything still running fine.
Get to campsite, set up, plug into shore power, turn that breaker on, go inside and turn on the main, leave the fridge on propane. Everything fine while we are there.
When we are packing up to leave, I went outside, turned the breaker off at the pole, disconnected the cable, and went back inside to turn the main off in there. So that step I kinda reversed in that I turned off the pole before I turned off the main at the converter.
When I turned off the main at the converter, the fridge turned off. Mind you I am disconnected from shore power, but the fridge should still be running. I push all the buttons on the fridge and nothing. So I flip the main breaker on, and the fridge comes back to life.
Shine a light into the fuse area on the converter, all the fuses I could see look good, I push on them, all feel seated, and its time to go, so I left it liked that since it was working.
Got to the storage yard, fridge still running fine and cold, empty it out. Switch the main breaker off again (to see if the fridge shuts off), and it doesn't, it stays on and running.
Any idea what could have caused this seemingly temporary issue? I thought I remembered someone else having a similar issue but I could not find the thread.
Maybe there is a bad or loose connection on the solder joints of the fuse panel on the converter? And it was just a coincidence that the connection went loose when I turned the main off and made a connection when I turned it on? Because I don't think any of the "breakers" on the converter connect to the AC of the fridge, I feel like that connection is already made and just switched in. Even if a breaker does run to the fridge, the lights and control operation is run off of DC anyways.
I know my battery is up for replacement just due to years of service imo, but it has been holding a charge, as the radio the drains it all the time was fully lit and bright when this happened.
Its just odd..
Anyway, we went camping this past weekend, and prior to camping I did my usual...brought trailer home, plugged into house power with adapter, and started the fridge. Typically I just run it on propane because it cools better, but this time I thought I'd go with AC for a couple hours while I did other stuff. Did that, came back and it was cooling pretty good, but I switched it to propane anyways, since we were headed out the next day.
Loaded it up and did what I normally do before leaving, flipped off the main breaker in the trailer. Look over, fridge still running, disconnected from house power, everything still running fine.
Get to campsite, set up, plug into shore power, turn that breaker on, go inside and turn on the main, leave the fridge on propane. Everything fine while we are there.
When we are packing up to leave, I went outside, turned the breaker off at the pole, disconnected the cable, and went back inside to turn the main off in there. So that step I kinda reversed in that I turned off the pole before I turned off the main at the converter.
When I turned off the main at the converter, the fridge turned off. Mind you I am disconnected from shore power, but the fridge should still be running. I push all the buttons on the fridge and nothing. So I flip the main breaker on, and the fridge comes back to life.
Shine a light into the fuse area on the converter, all the fuses I could see look good, I push on them, all feel seated, and its time to go, so I left it liked that since it was working.
Got to the storage yard, fridge still running fine and cold, empty it out. Switch the main breaker off again (to see if the fridge shuts off), and it doesn't, it stays on and running.
Any idea what could have caused this seemingly temporary issue? I thought I remembered someone else having a similar issue but I could not find the thread.
Maybe there is a bad or loose connection on the solder joints of the fuse panel on the converter? And it was just a coincidence that the connection went loose when I turned the main off and made a connection when I turned it on? Because I don't think any of the "breakers" on the converter connect to the AC of the fridge, I feel like that connection is already made and just switched in. Even if a breaker does run to the fridge, the lights and control operation is run off of DC anyways.
I know my battery is up for replacement just due to years of service imo, but it has been holding a charge, as the radio the drains it all the time was fully lit and bright when this happened.
Its just odd..