280 fridg

[kenyon]

I'm a newbie

galley fridg works on 110V shore power but not on 12 V. Haven't found a breaker for it

suggestions?

 

[1000islander]

I am not sure where the 12v breaker may be on your boat, find it and see if it is the problem. I had a similar problem with my fridge, it turned out to be the ac/dc transformer...$65 or so fixed it.

 

[beerman]

There is a switch in the main electrical panel for 12v fridge. Is that on?

 

[MT Pockets]

Do you have a sub panel for your breakers? On the 290 it's under the port seat in the cockpit, where the battery switches are located. Good luck.

 

[boatmailster]

there is an in-line fuse on 12v line behind refrigerator. you need to remove unit to replace it.

 

[boatacguy]

There should be a circuit breaker or fuse in the DC power supply either at the electrical panel or inline between the battery and the fridge, it could be that or the inverter module.

 

[StevenA]

Check the sub panel, that has been the case for many of my 12v issues when I had my 280da. My bilge would often trip it on the sub panel in the engine compartment. As far as the fridge, I thought it was on a sub panel also, check there. If not time to pull fridge and dig deeper, ie (fuse and/or inverter as previously suggested). Good luck.

 

[kenyon]

Was an inline fuse. Pulled the fridg; 4 screws and was a 10A plugged into the top of the unit. Too bad SeaRay's manual doesn't show this.

Thanks all for the help

 

[Presentation]

Was an inline fuse. Pulled the fridg; 4 screws and was a 10A plugged into the top of the unit. Too bad SeaRay's manual doesn't show this.

Thanks all for the help

If you don’t mine me asking, I have a follow up question.

I have never cleaned the coils on our boat refrigerator. I can see no access panel but now that you posted about removing screws I’m thinking that is how to access the coils.

I clean the home refrigerator coils at least 2x / year.

How dirty was it?

I’m wondering if I should remover the refrigerator and clean the cooling coils.