hello folks anyone got any ideas what this might be my electrolux fridge wont work on 240v and is costing me a fair bit of money on gas at the moment any ideas what could be wrong, all the wiring is in tact.
FILL or Phil74Camper has just done an excellent job or restoration ofn his VW BAY window camper.
He should be able toadvise so send him a U2U
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are you being a smartarse blue?
heh heh heh..... too dumb to be one of those Dakgrrl!
Hi
We should have a spell checker just like on the VW Vortex forums.
1302Steve
Hoo kneads a spell chequer!
Barry you'll have to stay off the giggle juice - at least until I can share one with you.
OK - about the fridge...
So it doesn't work on 240V. Does it work on 12 volts? Connect the red and black 12V cables from the fridge directly to a spare car battery, set
the switch to 12V and leave it for a few hours.
These fridges have a heating element inside the insulated box at the back. It looks like a thick brass pencil, about 1cm in diameter and about 8cm
long. When heated by an electric current (either 12 or 240V), it heats the freon coils and, by the heat absorbtion principle, cools the exchange coils
that run into the freezer element.
The three-way switch on the front selects either 240v AC or 12V DC (or off for gas). There is a transformer underneath and behind that allows the DC
heating element to operate from 240V mains.
So if it works on 12V (but not 240V), I would suspect either the switch or transformer has burnt out. If it doesn't work on either, then I
suspect the heating element has burnt out. It can be replaced - just unpeel the galvanised sheet box on the back, carefully remove the fibreglass
insulation and unbury the heating element from its steel casing. You can still buy new elements (of a higher capacity too) from Caravan Accessories in
Kogarah (Sydney).
They can also give you a quote for doing this work for you if you like. Brand-new Electrolux 3-way fridges are available, but they are about $1100.
The gas is a separate system and uses an insulated baffled flame tube to heat the rear coils. It's only a pilot light, but as you say will go
through some gas if you leave it on for several days.
BARRY
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Good description of how they work Phil, but as I'm a pedant I'll have to correct you on one little thing. They don't use freon, they use ammonia and hydrogen. :P