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Traveling - 28 May 2007 21:08 GMT I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control Refrigerator section freezes (24 degrees)
When hooked up to electrical power the panel shows "auto" but it freezes the refrigerator section. When forced to Gas it still freezes the refrigerator section. When 'turned off" with the panel switch, it still freezes the refrigerator section. When I remove the electrical plug from the rear of the fridge (disconnect from electric power) it runs normally on propane.
What's going on? Do I need a new circuit board. I see a box that may contain fuses but I'm reluctant to poke around any further until I get guidance from someone whose "been there, done that".
Thanks
Traveling
Rich256 - 28 May 2007 21:58 GMT > I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana > It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Traveling Not certain on your model. I think the only way to adjust the temperature is by moving the thermistor on the fins inside the refrigerator. Too cold, move the thermistor down.
http://www.rv-partsplus.com/home/tech_tips/rv_tech_article29.php
Test Only - 30 May 2007 01:57 GMT >> I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana >> It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > http://www.rv-partsplus.com/home/tech_tips/rv_tech_article29.php I had the same problem. I would bet that it is a bad thermistor. One can be had for under $20 USD. Before you buy one poke around your unit and do some testing. I found the Dometic service manual on line. I think it gave a check on the thermistor. You check resistance, it varies with temperature and should be 450Kohms (?). On my unit I got lucky and found that the thermistor was not screwed into the terminal board properly. I trimmed the wire and relanded it. No problems since. Dometic was wonderful to deal with when I called them. I just had no patience to drag a fifth wheel into town for repair.
Good luck.
Bob Giddings - 28 May 2007 22:52 GMT >I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana >It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >Traveling When this happens on a freon fridge, the usual thing is that you are low on freon, and the cure is to top it off. I'm not sure about ammonia based fridges, but it may have something to do with the pressure of the coolant there too.
I'd take it in and have it tested. If it is leaking, you should be able to smell ammonia. And if it is leaking, you are probably looking at replacing the unit for around $1200.
The test won't cost much, though.
Bob
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Tom J - 29 May 2007 16:36 GMT > When this happens on a freon fridge, the usual thing is that you > are low on freon, and the cure is to top it off. I'm not sure > about ammonia based fridges, but it may have something to do with > the pressure of the coolant there too. Just the opposite happens with an RV frig. When it gets low it stops cooling the frig part befor the freezer part.
Tom J
Harry Harris - 28 May 2007 23:06 GMT >I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana > It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Traveling Get rid of that thing before it blows up your RV. Propane is too dangerous to be using in refrigerators.
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Dean - 29 May 2007 00:10 GMT >Get rid of that thing before it blows up your RV. Propane is too >dangerous to be using in refrigerators. > >Harry Harris Jezus Christ, here we go again.
Troll. Plonk!
Dave in Lake Villa - 29 May 2007 12:13 GMT 'Get rid of that thing before it blows up your RV. Propane is too dangerous to be using in refrigerators.' Harry Harris Jezus Christ, here we go again. Troll. Plonk!
REPLY: Jesus is not someone to be slandered. He is the Creator and I promise you, you shall come face to face with him soon and your knee will bow even. If you go to www.impactapologetics.com and get the booklet 'THe 12 Points that Prove Christianity' , youll have all the historic and scientific evidence you need to believe in Jesus and make him the Lord of your life. Its the only way youre going to have a good eternity . Dont let your pride stand in the way . Email me if you want to. Regards.
Sue - 29 May 2007 16:22 GMT On May 29, 4:13 am, DaveInLakeVi...@webtv.net (Dave in Lake Villa) wrote:
> 'Get rid of that thing before it blows up your RV. Propane is too > dangerous to be using in refrigerators.' [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > eternity . Dont let your pride stand in the way . Email me if you want > to. Regards. AND There you go AGAIN, you proseltyzing creationist brainwashed fuckwit. f.ck you god and shove that bible up your bum Sue
Harry Harris - 29 May 2007 16:40 GMT > On May 29, 4:13 am, DaveInLakeVi...@webtv.net (Dave in Lake Villa) > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > f.ck you god and shove that bible up your bum > Sue Foul-mouthed slut! Spawn of Satan. You'd do well to get Jesus in your life. Change your attitude or experience God's wrath. It's your choice to make. That's the beauty of Christianity. It's the one sure time you WILL be held accountable for your decisions.
You're pretty darned stupid to not listen to a man who said he was God which man then allowed himself to be cruelly executed because it was God's plan but said he would arise from the dead . . . and then did exactly as he said he would. He's got my attention and respect and reverence. I've got nothing to lose heeding his message. I've got everything to lose ignoring it.
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Sue - 30 May 2007 01:25 GMT On May 29, 8:40 am, "Harry Harris" <har...@thehilltopcafe.notagoodaddy> wrote:
> > On May 29, 4:13 am, DaveInLakeVi...@webtv.net (Dave in Lake Villa) > > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > Harry Harris I can't believe it----->as ANOTHER brainwashed fundy fuckwit raises it's stupid little head
So f.ck your god too! Sue
Harry Harris - 30 May 2007 02:41 GMT > On May 29, 8:40 am, "Harry Harris" > <har...@thehilltopcafe.notagoodaddy> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > So f.ck your god too! > Sue Correction, He's OUR God. Just because you reject Him and will burn in hellfire forever and ever unless you repent, He remains your God, too. Your only hope and your only way.
But, I don't know why I bother with you for Jesus said: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." Matthew 7:6 http://members.aol.com/twarren20/castswine.html
"The admonition of the Lord in our text then clearly means that his disciples shall not give, nor minister the gospel, or its provisions, its promises, its comforts, its ordinances, or any of its commands, to any who are thus designated dogs, or who are in nature, disposition, practice or appetite as unlike the regenerated and spiritual people of God as dogs are unlike and inimical to the sheep and lambs. The gospel is food to the saints, because it is Christ; the preaching of the gospel is preaching Christ, and it is food to the spiritual, and hence the ministers of the gospel are commissioned to feed the sheep and feed the lambs; to feed the flock of God which he hath purchased with his own blood, but charged to give not that which is holy (and the gospel and all its ordinances are holy) to dogs. Dogs have no use for holy things, they can do them no good, for they are not adapted to their nature or suited to their appetites; besides, it is a desecration of holy things to give them to dogs or to swine. It is true, that the Gospel is to be preached to every creature, to all nations, and in all the world, for a witness to all nations, but only those who have ears to hear can hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. The ministers of Christ have nothing but the Gospel to preach, and that they must preach wherever God is pleased to open a door for them to preach, and its effect will be to discriminate between the living and the dead. All who have been pricked in the heart by the life-giving power of the Spirit will gladly receive the Word, as did the quickened on the day of Pentecost, while all others will mock and reject the testimony. But what we understand as being intended by this admonition, is that we are forbidden to attempt to Christianize unregenerated men, by teaching them the letter of the Word, and applying to them the ordinances of the Gospel as a means of salvation, by Catechisms, Bible classes, Sunday Schools, etc...as though we could so improve their carnal minds as to make them acceptable to God, without being born of the Spirit."
Harry Harris
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Sue - 30 May 2007 03:01 GMT On May 29, 6:41 pm, "Harry Harris" <har...@thehilltopcafe.notagoodaddy> wrote: <snipped mindless bullcrud> Harry Harris
There's only one thing wrong (actually there are many) with the basis of your entire statement..There's no f.cking god
(And American's actually wonder why the rest of the World considers them to mentally unbalanced! JFC!)
Dean - 30 May 2007 16:25 GMT >On May 29, 8:40 am, "Harry Harris" ><har...@thehilltopcafe.notagoodaddy> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >So f.ck your god too! >Sue I hat to stick up for Harry in any way, but Sue, you are a foul mouthed little c.nt, aren't you!
Sue - 31 May 2007 02:33 GMT > I hate to stick up for Harry in any way, but Sue, you are a foul > mouthed little c.nt, aren't you! Moi? Does that make you all hot and bothered? I bet you like when women talk dirty! Sue
Shad O'Shay - 31 May 2007 02:50 GMT >> I hate to stick up for Harry in any way, but Sue, you are a foul >> mouthed little c.nt, aren't you! [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I bet you like when women talk dirty! > Sue I can tell a woman from a man acting like a woman. Even on Usenet. This Sue is some sort of a drag queen without a doubt. Either that or she's one of those bull dyke types.
Shad O'Shay
Sue - 31 May 2007 18:03 GMT > >> I hate to stick up for Harry in any way, but Sue, you are a foul > >> mouthed little c.nt, aren't you! [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Shad O'Shay Please don't mention this to my daughter, it would be unpleasantly disconcerting for her to learn that her mum is really a bloke after all these years.
I've grown from just an annoying dislike to a complete and absolute visceral and vitriolic repulsion of soap box bible/quran thumping fundamentalist fuckwits, whether they be christians or muslims. Trust me on this point, for one to say: "f.ck their god(s)" trends to annoying them to their very core. Sue
Shad O'Shay - 31 May 2007 19:39 GMT > Please don't mention this to my daughter, it would be unpleasantly > disconcerting for her to learn that her mum is really a bloke after > all these years. Means nothing. Vice President Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter. She just recently had a baby. These days you can be a dyke and still get pregnant with artificial insemination. I think they use a turkey baster. Or that strap-on can be dipped in semen.
> I've grown from just an annoying dislike to a complete and absolute > visceral and vitriolic repulsion of soap box bible/quran thumping > fundamentalist fuckwits, whether they be christians or muslims. Trust > me on this point, for one to say: "f.ck their god(s)" trends to > annoying them to their very core. > Sue Doesn't bother me as much as your foul mouth and unladylike demeanor. It's uncouth. I wouldn't touch you with stick. Bet you're divorced and living alone. Either that or you got knocked up out of wedlock. Typical whore. Total lack of self-respect.
Shad O'Shay
Joe G - 01 Jun 2007 20:20 GMT >> Please don't mention this to my daughter, it would be unpleasantly >> disconcerting for her to learn that her mum is really a bloke after [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Shad O'Shay I knew the thread was too long to be just about somebodies fridge!
Joe
Un Saved - 02 Jun 2007 02:09 GMT Id rather be a dyke any day than a drunken irish idiot.
"IF YOU WANT A NATION RULED BY RELIGON MOVE TO IRAN"
Dean - 02 Jun 2007 16:15 GMT >Id rather be a dyke any day than a drunken irish idiot. > >"IF YOU WANT A NATION RULED BY RELIGON MOVE TO IRAN" Hmmm. We have been a Judeo-Christian country for ~225 years. It has not been until the last 25 or so years that we have gotten away from those beliefs that things seem to be going to hell. I can see a correlation.
Harry Harris - 02 Jun 2007 16:20 GMT >>Id rather be a dyke any day than a drunken irish idiot. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > those beliefs that things seem to be going to hell. I can see a > correlation. AMEN, Brother!!!
HH
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Jim - 29 May 2007 04:08 GMT >I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana > It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >model and Serial # to this link http://dometicusa.com/recall.php perhaps >you are affected... Jim Traveling - 29 May 2007 11:02 GMT Yes I did and thanks. I have scheduled the repair for June but I don't think the problem I have is related to the recall.
Traveling
>>I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana >> It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>your model and Serial # to this link http://dometicusa.com/recall.php >>perhaps you are affected... Jim Jon Griffin - 29 May 2007 14:50 GMT >I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana >It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control >Refrigerator section freezes (24 degrees) Check out Chris Bryant's web page. He has manuals on line for the Americana.
http://www.bryantrv.com/owners.html
Jon
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Treefort - 30 May 2007 04:41 GMT I have a Norcold, but it's also propane/electric.
I've had to replace the circuit board once and the thermostat once.
Both times it exhibited the same sort of problem, in that both the freezer and the refrigerator sections froze.
The repairman said the refrigerator is set up so if it can't get a thermostat reading, it goes on maximum freeze and this affects both sections.
I switched to propane until I could get the new circuit board installed and this seemed to work, but that didn't help when the thermostat died.
Check with a Dometic repairman and see if yours has the same fail-safe response.
>I have a 99 Dometic Fridge, Americana >It's 2 way Electric and Propane with no manual temperature control [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >Traveling Trefor Thomas
 Signature To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem. To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized, merely the domesticated.
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