Motorhome – RV Refrigerator Fix

129On our 2002 Coachmen Catalina we had a pesky refrigerator problem where the pilot light would go out when you were driving the motorhome and the refrigerator was in the gas mode. It seemed like it was going to work fine up until you started cruising at fifty five miles per hour or above and then the flame would go out. We had it back to the dealer a few times, but it was hard to find if the vehicle was not moving.

Everything was checked, the gas feed, the regulator, and all of the gas lines and nothing seemed to be wrong so nothing got fixed. It wasn't until we went to sell the Coachmen to buy a larger RV that the problem surfaced once again, and this time the RV wasn't moving at all, which was new it had never done that before. So we switched from battery power to pluging the cord into the house current and it conked out again.

It had never given an indication that it was an electrical problem before until now. So we traced all of the wiring to a panel under the refrigerator and found wire wrapped connectors with one of the wraps loose. It was just tight enough to work most of the time, but now it was finally getting loose enough to allow us to find it. After tightening the connection the refrigerator worked properly regardless of the power source.