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Refrigerator Issue
- feeez
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Refrigerator Issue
Repost,
We got in the water (finally) this past week. I got the fridge up and running and everything seemed AOK, my beer was cold!!! After it had been running for a day I noticed that it would come on, run for about a minute, stop and then resume running. It would eventually turn off properly (I could hear the "click" of the thermostat). As time went by this "short cycling: got more persistent to the point that it was on and off, on and off. I decided to shut it down as I did not want to leave the boat with the fridge doing that for days on end thinking that it would not be good for the compressor.
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Re: Refrigerator Issue
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Re: Refrigerator Issue
Do both compressors cycle quickly? Does this happen regardless if it's on AC or DC?
btw, I think I have a lot of parts for that model that I got when a friend replaced his. I parted it out and got rid of the case but think I still have a lot of the original parts.
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Re: Refrigerator Issue
If it's like I'm thinking, there's also two thermostats, one controlling each compressor. So one compressor might work fine and one might not, and you should be able to tell just by turning one thermostat to 'max' and the other to 'min' and then alternate.
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Re: Refrigerator Issue
camsaure@aol.com wrote:Source of the post I tried it on 12 volts and it did pretty much the same. Could that mean the fan as mentioned, or maybe slightly low on charge? Or is it possible both thermostats could be bad?? Just got your last post, there is only one contol knob on bottom front or am I missing something?
You really should start a new thread for this issue. The OP had a different brand of fridge and you're going to get confusing suggestions/responses as folks read through the thread and respond to different post or info they see.
(but I did dig up the schematic for yours and it does show only one thermostat that controls both compressor sections).
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