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stock61


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hi have a dometic 3 way fridge work 240 ,gas but not on 12v when i connect it to car battery switch fridge to aes still no power, i have power to fridge on the house battery light comes on in the fridge but won't switch to 12 volt to make it cold. i have power to the fridge at the back of from the car battery but all i hear is the gas trying to switch on, gas is turned of i just need it on 12 volt while i'm traveling,any help would be great.



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I suggest that you try testing your 12volt element that may be your problem



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erad


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From memory, the resistance of the 12V element should be 0.5 to 1.0 Ohms, which is quite low. If you don't get resistances of this order, the element is probably burnt out or a wire has fallen off.

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Hi, If the fridge you have is an AES model (model number would help us) you need to check if there is 12 volts present on the D+ Terminal. An AES fridge will not switch to 12 volt operation until there is 12 volts on that terminal.

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Frank

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Its not efficient on 12v anyway . Yes handy to have as stop gap between gas , 240v. As said element, connections . Best thing I did was replace with 12v compressor fridge .


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There is a youtube on replacing this element. This one is an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KMHamcidMo

 

Good Luck.



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Some good advice there.

Hako's youtube is real good for us layman that like to fiddle.

Our 3 way works fine for our travels and would have another kne when the time comes.



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Is it one of these -

www.dometic.com/en-au/au/lp/refrigerator-recall

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