I have a 2008 Bailey Senator with a Dometic RM8550 3 way fridge that is playing up on gas. The fridge has a manual ignition with a new AAA battery installed; it sounds like it is sparking well.. It has a needle gauge where the needle should swing in to the green zone when the fridge is working correctly on gas. It may also be worthy of note that the caravan has been stored for some time without use; in fact it is quite possible that the fridge has not been used on gas for years; possibly even ever. I have 2 issues: 1. it is temperamental to get running on gas, and 2. It does not appear to be running cold enough.
Initially the fridge would not fire up on gas at all. So I purged all the gas lines by burning on all of the other gas equipment. Then eventually I got it lit. The needle on the gauge slowly swung across so that it was just (and only just) touch the green zone. I left the fridge running overnight with 2 small freezer blocks in the freezer compartment. In the morning they were not fully frozen. And there was drips of water in the fridge compartment. So here is my first issue: when I do get the fridge running on gas it does not appear to be cooling enough.
The second issue is that it does not always fire up on gas. Most of the time I hear the spark and then the ignition of the gas, I continue to hold in the knob for 15 seconds (as instructed in the manual), but it appears that the flame must have petered out. Then other times it does not light at all.
So in summary; gas supply to the fridge is good, spark is good. Sometime the fridge will not ignite, sometimes it will light temporarily and on the the occasions that it lights and satay lit it does not appear to be running cold enough.
Any advice from you experts will be greatly appreciated.
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to make it clear what the problem is.
Initially the fridge would not fire up on gas at all. So I purged all the gas lines by burning on all of the other gas equipment. Then eventually I got it lit. The needle on the gauge slowly swung across so that it was just (and only just) touch the green zone. I left the fridge running overnight with 2 small freezer blocks in the freezer compartment. In the morning they were not fully frozen. And there was drips of water in the fridge compartment. So here is my first issue: when I do get the fridge running on gas it does not appear to be cooling enough.
The second issue is that it does not always fire up on gas. Most of the time I hear the spark and then the ignition of the gas, I continue to hold in the knob for 15 seconds (as instructed in the manual), but it appears that the flame must have petered out. Then other times it does not light at all.
So in summary; gas supply to the fridge is good, spark is good. Sometime the fridge will not ignite, sometimes it will light temporarily and on the the occasions that it lights and satay lit it does not appear to be running cold enough.
Any advice from you experts will be greatly appreciated.
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to make it clear what the problem is.