And if it dont then there are a couple of fuses to check. Large amperage one from alternator and a 5 amp one on a relay .Your 3 way fridge only works on 12v when engine is running.
So after not being able to find the 240 supply as it goes in a new fangled box and splits in 2, both with power out only nothing at other end... disappears into the unknown somewhere in the cabinetry..Dump it and fit a compressor fridge which is much better.
I would have changed to a compressor fridge from day one, cost £80 new.We have a Dometic Fridge it did not work on electric like you just a day or so maybe less then turned off. We changed all sorts on it including electric element, it still did not work. We gave up running on gas only.
So this year we had a different problem when our trip switch blew we then changed trip switch to 16 amp it was a 13 amp bingo fridge been ok on electric ever since. The parts we changed costs us £600 ? This switch was £10 on Amazon.
Our conclusion is maybe the circuit breaker switch had been breaking down for some time.
It's a nightmare, 237 out of the circuit breaker. 237 into water heater and 237 into and out of the box under the fridge ..nothing into fridge , though last time when it worked there was .... I cant find another junction box ..We have a Dometic Fridge it did not work on electric like you just a day or so maybe less then turned off. We changed all sorts on it including electric element, it still did not work. We gave up running on gas only.
So this year we had a different problem when our trip switch blew we then changed trip switch to 16 amp it was a 13 amp bingo fridge been ok on electric ever since. The parts we changed costs us £600 ? This switch was £10 on Amazon.
Our conclusion is maybe the circuit breaker switch had been breaking down for some time.
I dont think you should have that feeling in this case unless of course you have been motorhoming for many many years...........then yes, hang your head in shameYou know when you feel you should have known this already!!! Thank you
When buying a new Motorhome it’s almost certain that you will have initial problems. There is so much put into them it’s almost inevitable. What would annoyed me more than anything from your situation would be the dealership, not rapido, or the engineer who erred during the vans construction.Try buying a new Rapido for £64,000 and giving it back to Brownhills three times to get the electric bed to work properly. They couldn't fix it so after I got the bed's workshop manual from the bed designer chap in Italy I spent a full day chasing the wiring to find that the Galloise smoking, Bordeaux drinking moron in the Rapido factory couldn't bother himself to push an eight pin plug and socket together. I cut the wires and soldered them together. Then the bed collapsed in one corner, fortunately while I was not driving. Needless to say I got rid of it costing me £6000. That was cheaper than taking Brownhills to court.
It is amazing how many fridge problems reported seem to end up being such a basic thing as power not getting to the thing!I'm not questioning your intelligence, because I fell for this. Have you checked the plug is in and switched on? Our three way fridge did a similar thing and I was all set to take it in. I mentioned it to a guy on the next pitch to me and it was his suggestion. The plug is in a cupboard below the fridge and sure enough when putting stuff in the cupboard we'd knocked the switch off!
Should be 14.4vAs a domestic gas boiler engineer I did sometimes chuckle when I went to a customer with a non working boiler, only to find it wasn't switched on, or more usually the programmer was off. To answer fisherman's question I soldered the wires together because the bed spec said wiring should be rated at 20 amps and the little connectors were rated at 15A. Sorry to be off topic, my brain diverted me to the time when a fridge I had wouldn't work on 12v and the reason was that each of the many connections in the supply dropped the volts a little bit leaving only 10.8v at the fridge so it didn't work. I rewired it with thicker wire and soldered joints, then it worked fine as it now had 12.8v with the engine running.