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Old 08-03-2022, 06:20 PM   #1
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Default Norcold fridge quit working on gas all of a sudden

Fridge all of a sudden just started getting warmer after a day of working great. I checked the flame in the box and it looks good. Nice blue flame, the box and pipe coming out is hot. The pipe at the top of the heat tube is hot. The coil or whatever the radiator thing is looks good. I checked those things and restarted it no problem nice flame, the dial goes to green just doesn't cool? Were home now and plugged it i and it works on AC. I'm just starting to troubleshoot but dont know much if anything about the fridge. It's always worked great in any mode. Any ideas or places to start based on the symptoms I described?? Solved see post #4
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So, to be clear, the fridge works fine on AC, but not on propane, yet there is a nice blue flame on the burner and the top of the heat tube is hot? Something doesn't seem quite right....

Were the ambient temps the same during those times?

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So, to be clear, the fridge works fine on AC, but not on propane, yet there is a nice blue flame on the burner and the top of the heat tube is hot? Something doesn't seem quite right....

Were the ambient temps the same during those times?

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That is correct. I'm going to leave it on AC overnight just to make sure it's working properly. Then I'll shut it off and ck / clean out the gas tube and burner and run it on gas again to verify.
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Well I think I found the problem. First of all it worked on AC as I verified that. So I went about cleaning the burner area and when I started banging on the flue pipe chunks of soot were falling out! So I think the pipe was blocked by the soot just above the burner. Which explains why even with a decent flame it didn't work very well. The pipes got warm before but now they get HOT. On AC they got hot but not nearly as hot on LP before I cleaned it out. I stuck two warm Coors Light cans in the fridge this morning. Now after being on all day (on LP)they are blue and cold. There's still kind of a burnt smell that permeates into the RV and around the back of the fridge I cant see why though? Now i just have the water dripping out of the city inlet when the pump is on. One way valve or WP is bad? I just replaced the WP a year and a half ago. Edit -- I think Bill just answered that one for me.
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Excellent, great work!

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