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Old 08-06-2007, 06:00 PM   #2
rdunk
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Well, you are still covered by Dometic warranty, so that is good. Don't have the side-by-side, but assume your fridge also has a "thermister" which attaches to the fins in the fridge. A thermister can fail. If you unplug the thermister, from the card on the rear of the fridge, then the fridge goes to a default setting, which is to run on high. If you do this, and the fridge begins to cool, then you will know the thermister is bad. If the fridge doesn't cool, with the thermister unplugged, then the thermister is probably good. The first time our fridge quit cooling, it was the 1 amp fuse, that I upgraded to a 3 amp. Since your fuses are good, then it may be your cooling unit. Dometic replaced our cooling unit earlier this year. That is one major job for the service techs. They removed the fridge, took it outside, took everything off the back of it, pried out the cooling unit, replaced the cooling unit, and then replaced all those little parts removed the back of the fridge.

Not an expert! Probably some other items that might contribute, but the fact that the fans are running, and the fuses are good, and assuming there is not a big frost build-up in the fridge, then that probably narrows down the possible causes.

Good luck! Yes, the fridge is one of our biggest disappointments for "quality" fulltiming. As I have said before, next RV would have a residential fridge, compressor and all!

Good luck!
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