Refrigerator on-off

stnick · May 25, 2010

93 sundancer 290.
Fridge was working great and left on shore power. Guy was waxing the boat for me and unplugged the shore power and left it unplugged. I noticed and plugged back up, now the fridge just tries to start but doesn't... does this over and over every 10 seconds or so.
Where do I start to diagnose? It's a small 20x20 inch under the counter top type. I'd say it's the original. Boat has 325 total hours.

Thanks,
Nick

Guest · May 25, 2010

Well my tug is older . But I have a reset button inside of the refrigerator next to the temp settings.
Did you try pushing that if you have one ??. I'm just guessing here. :smt001

I would shut off the main breaker and start over. :thumbsup:
It sounds like it switching back and forth from 12v to 115 v. :huh:

260 Sundancer · May 25, 2010

If this were a home Fridge, it sounds like your compressor has finally died. Something to consider....

stnick · May 26, 2010

It could be a coincidence that the frige fails at the exact time the shore power is unplugged for 4 days and this switched the frige to dc and drained the batteries. I dont know if that killed it or not but I have to look at the last thing changed and work from there.
I seem to remember that a compressor has a starter capacitor to bring the motor up to speed, without that capacitor the motor can not start and will try and try until something else fails. Maybe thats it?
I hate to drop $700 on a new unit w/o attempting a repair first. Had hoped someone had been there before me.

Nick

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