dpagini
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2015
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- 41
Hey All,
Looking for some troubleshooting advice. Bought a boat last year, and the refrigerator was not working. I'm pretty certain the original was cooked, as it wasn't working on 120v even at home. Anyways, I threw that one away, and bought a new 24v/120v fridge. When I plug it in (shore power), it works great, nice and cold. I disconnect my shore power, and it does not appear to be working. I pulled out the fridge, and tried to get a read from a multimeter on the two wires coming to the back of the fridge, and I just cannot find any way to get power to these leads.
Next, I tried to trace back the wires and see where they are coming from. I crawled up in my cabinet with a flashlight, and see these two wires going up into a space I cannot really see... great. The wires head in the direction of the breakers. I use a camera to try and see where this is going. AS BEST AS I CAN TELL, there is a whole wire harness (maybe 16 or so wires in a group) that these two wires are coming from. There is a plug under my sink. When I disconnect this plug, a lot of things in my cabin stop working (lights at least), so I know the plug has at least a good "hot wire". from the plug, most of the wires go up to what I'm guessing is the breaker box. Somewhere out of my view, two wires come out, and come back down (for the fridge). In addition, I can see two more wires that break off, and go to a 12v plug, that works currently. Things are looking pretty good, so I can't figure out what's happening.
Anyways, one thing I am looking to this forum for, besides ideas of things to check, is wondering how the boat turns these leads on when I'm off shore power? According to the manual, "The refridgerator will automatically transfer to 12 volt operation when dockside power is not available and the 12 volt refridgerator breaker is on." - Where would the 12v refridgerator breaker be??
FYI my boat is a 2000 Four Winns 248 Vista.
Looking for some troubleshooting advice. Bought a boat last year, and the refrigerator was not working. I'm pretty certain the original was cooked, as it wasn't working on 120v even at home. Anyways, I threw that one away, and bought a new 24v/120v fridge. When I plug it in (shore power), it works great, nice and cold. I disconnect my shore power, and it does not appear to be working. I pulled out the fridge, and tried to get a read from a multimeter on the two wires coming to the back of the fridge, and I just cannot find any way to get power to these leads.
Next, I tried to trace back the wires and see where they are coming from. I crawled up in my cabinet with a flashlight, and see these two wires going up into a space I cannot really see... great. The wires head in the direction of the breakers. I use a camera to try and see where this is going. AS BEST AS I CAN TELL, there is a whole wire harness (maybe 16 or so wires in a group) that these two wires are coming from. There is a plug under my sink. When I disconnect this plug, a lot of things in my cabin stop working (lights at least), so I know the plug has at least a good "hot wire". from the plug, most of the wires go up to what I'm guessing is the breaker box. Somewhere out of my view, two wires come out, and come back down (for the fridge). In addition, I can see two more wires that break off, and go to a 12v plug, that works currently. Things are looking pretty good, so I can't figure out what's happening.
Anyways, one thing I am looking to this forum for, besides ideas of things to check, is wondering how the boat turns these leads on when I'm off shore power? According to the manual, "The refridgerator will automatically transfer to 12 volt operation when dockside power is not available and the 12 volt refridgerator breaker is on." - Where would the 12v refridgerator breaker be??
FYI my boat is a 2000 Four Winns 248 Vista.
