The number one reason cooling units fail is because they rust out and start leaking ammonia.
Dometic cooling unit blockage.
Dometic cooling unit blockage refrigerated space q3 rv refrigerator dometic recall refrigerated space boiler assembly q2 q3 q1 cooling evaporator fin boiler percolator pump manufacture built the cooling unit in a manner that would result in premature failure.
If the cooling unit isn t running at it s peak performance there s little point to moving on to cleaning the other components.
If your rv refrigerator isn t cooling and smells of ammonia the cooling unit has failed and needs to be replaced.
When standard units don t fit tailor made all in one kits can be an alternative and this is made easy by the cu series of cooling units combined with the vd series.
They come ready for connection to 12 24 v dc and are powerful economical and superbly quiet in operation.
Though a blocked percolator tube is but one cause of rendering a cooling unit faulty by far the largest cause of unit failure today is due to leaks in the tubing especially in those areas imbedded in the polyurethane foam block which surrounds the evaporator sections.