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Old 02-12-2011, 08:12 AM   #13
sreigle
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Rick, as you know, we also do Nov/Dec in Kansas. For the very first time, this last December, we had that problem. I talked with Jim G at Lifestyles RV and he told me it's an occasional problem with the Dometic refrigerators. He said the thermistor wire that goes through the back wall is susceptible to outside temperature changes and when there is a rather sudden drop in temperature when it's very cold then the control board gets confused and thinks it is too cold inside the refrigerator and shuts down the cooling. The solution was to put a lighbulb inside that outside compartment. It took a couple of days but it did solve the problem. In all our years this is the only time we've had this problem. The temperature went from around 30 to single digits during the night. I used a 60 watt bulb but smaller would probably work fine, too.
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