Hmmm. Well, I will assume you also tried cooling it on AC mode first once you arrived back home to attempt relight. Clearing the air intake pipe might help. IIRC, I've used a ShopVac with rubber hose shoved down the intake pipe at flue. The exhaust pipe has (3?) dimples. Yes. Image: so cleaning it with ShopVac, fridge still installed, may not be so easy. Can't recall if I simply used a narrower hose. Even if I did, am not sure it got past those dimples. On 3/23/14, mcneely4@cox.net <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote: > Thanks Neil. Right, I could not light the refrigerator back here in > Oklahoma. The highest altitude we were in with the vehicle in BBNP was > about 4500 feet asl, and the camp site where it failed is only at 2800 feet > asl. Yes, propane stove worked fine. So far as temperature and operation, > the refrigerator has always worked very well in the eighties F, including on > battery. But we went for long stretches with the driver's side of the van > in the sun, which is why I switched to propane for driving, as the > refrigerator had warmed up to 10 C. It usually stays around 4 C when > ambient is in the eighties F, or colder if ambient is in the sixties or > below. Sorry for mixing units, but the thermometer I use in the fridge is a > C thermometer. Four C is about 39 F. I did try to blow in the drain tube > with a piece of tubing. Did not work. But the refrigerator went out and > warmed up while parked, which has never happened for me before. Then I > could not, and still cannot, relight it. > > mcneely > > -
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