Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:40:47 -0700
Reply-To:     Barbara Sutton/Cris Torlasco <bsutton@GLADSTONE.UOREGON.EDU>
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From:         Barbara Sutton/Cris Torlasco <bsutton@GLADSTONE.UOREGON.EDU>
Organization: University of Oregon
Subject:      My Dometic is nuts!
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Hello everybody,
Me and Barbara spent last weekend (our first wedding anniversary) in a
Forest Service fire lookout in SE Oregon. Everything went extremely
well, Fafner (our '91 Westie) rode flawlessly through steep loose gravel
roads, with temperatures in the upper 90's. (I'll post photos in the
WetWesties' website when developed.)
The big dissapointment was the fridge, though. I noticed it wasn't
cooling as much as usual, and blamed it on the warm weather. By Saturday
afternoon it was barely cooling, had to rush the salmon to the grill
before it went bad! I could hear the propane burning from the outside
vent, and the fan was going on every now and then, as usual. But no
cooling at all...
Now for the strange conclusion, after turning the engine off when
arriving home from work today I hear the fridge running. This was quite
a surprise, since last night when we got back from the mountains I had
turned off the propane valve, and all the fridge's switches...I figured
that the only possible source had to be 12 v., even if the switch was
off. I took the fuse out of the fuse box behind the driver's seat, and
it stopped working. I guess that if I hadn't noticed the fridge running
it would have drained the brand new Interstate battery, or burned
smething else.
What is going on? I'll search the archives, but in the meantime, if
anyone has a clue it will be greately appreciated.
This is a fridge that last month was working so well that I could
actually make ice from those little ice cube makers...
Thanks,
Cris.
Eugene, OR.
'91 Westie "Fafner"
'65 Standard
'71 MG Midget
The WetWesties' Website:
http://members.tripod.com/~torlasco/WetWesties.html