Fridge ignites with a bang.

Rongela · Veteran Member

Fridge ignites with a bang.

macka17 · Guru

YEP.

ONE of the main reasons why most more used to it, travellers.
Use the 12\240v Fridges.

Same costs to buy and install.
More efficient. and use less power (solar.)

Radar · Guru

Rongela wrote:
I have a Dometic 3way fridge. Model RMD 8551. Working OK On all three modes, but on gas it has started to make a bang sound every time it re-ignites. Very annoying during sleeping hours. Hoping it's not a dangerous fault. Can anyone suggest what the cause may be and how to rectify.
Thanks in advanc

Possibly the igniter is to far away from the flame.

Hope some one with a more technical back ground can tell you how to adjust or maybe you need to call into a friendly gas appliance man to fix.

I am sure its adjustment, not a large problem.

Bagmaker · Senior Member

could be an obstruction near the flame point, diverting the gas away from the igniter.
Eventually it builds up to a point where it ignites with a bang.
A good clean might help

macka17 · Guru

YEP.
And a caravan with NO freeflowing gas floating round the joint is good too thank you.

Faulty gas appliance. Turn off. and get somebody who knows what he's doing to check it out.

You ever seen a timber. OR Steel Yacht go bang....
With a gas leak.
Lots of timber chips. or a round steel ball.
No thank's.

I saw a concrete Bomb shelter roof blown off yrs ago on construction site.
Storage area for site gas bottles.
AND TEA ROOM.

1 Bottle valve leaked.
several blokes died. (Early '60's. UK)

I have gas under sufferance in van. NONE in home.

Radar · Guru

macka17 wrote:
YEP.
And a caravan with NO freeflowing gas floating round the joint is good too thank you.

Faulty gas appliance. Turn off. and get somebody who knows what he's doing to check it out.

You ever seen a timber. OR Steel Yacht go bang....
With a gas leak.
Lots of timber chips. or a round steel ball.
No thank's.

I saw a concrete Bomb shelter roof blown off yrs ago on construction site.
Storage area for site gas bottles.
AND TEA ROOM.

1 Bottle valve leaked.
several blokes died. (Early '60's. UK)

I have gas under sufferance in van. NONE in home.

Macka with out a doubt you are a great help. Full stop.

Rongela · Veteran Member

Thanks for your advise. Thought it might be the igniter. Will have a look. Hope I dont explode into splinters Macca.

Radar · Guru

Rongela wrote:
Thanks for your advise. Thought it might be the igniter. Will have a look. Hope I dont explode into splinters Macca.

It may save you from spending bucket load of cash on a 12 volt frig and back up system. Just joking of course.

Desert Dweller · Guru

Our portable 3 way Finch fridge sometimes does the same. It's just a build up of gas before it ignites. Dometic & Finch are both made by Electrolux.

Ron-D · Guru

I agree with the others have it looked at...

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

I just cleaned mine . Including ignition points . Don't actually know how I fixed it ? Assume dirty ignition ? Or bunged up gas jet ? Just cleaned with copper wire .

Rongela · Veteran Member

I am going to have a look and make sure burner, igniter etc. are all clean. If I dont rectify the problem I will have it serviced. Thanks all for your input.

macka17 · Guru

RADAR.

Just a "SUBTLER" way to say. Get it looked at if you not confident.

Gas does go off with a big bang if you get it wrong.
I've seen several circumstances of thank you.
Not nice. and usually concerns bodies.

Safety b4 economy in such things I reckon.

Same as 240v. Tradie.

billy botswana · Member

Macca,

I come to this site to get useful info, you seem to reply to most threads with benign BS, I am wondering if your twin brother is AGM!!!!

Billy

Mike Harding · Guru

billy botswana wrote:
you seem to reply to most threads with benign BS

"Benign BS"

What a perfect description of the vast majority of Macca's posts.

Desert Dweller · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
billy botswana wrote:
you seem to reply to most threads with benign BS
"Benign BS"
What a perfect description of the vast majority of Macca's posts.

Some people are always right. They are much more intelligent than the rest of us so get used to it. Macka is a glowing example of total brilliance.

oldbloke · Guru

I had the same problem, dometic three way fridge too.
It's just an adjustment. The ignition spark is slightly out of position and when it lights there is more gas than normal. Just goes pop and takes a few goes to light.
Have a tech look/adjust it, just a 15 minute job.

Rongela · Veteran Member

Thanks everyone. No need for more advice. If I cant fix I will have it serviced. Thakyou to all for your advice.

Warren-Pat_01 · Guru

Gas has it's use when treated kindly & safely in our barbeques, caravans & cars.
When I was in the SES at Ceduna, I learnt a 100lb cylinder could take out quite a number of houses if it exploded. There was a parked railway unit with a large gas tank on it in the USA a number of decades ago & it caught fire & blew up - the small railway town went with it!

I notice Ron is going to get his fridge looked at - hope your sleeps then will be as you expect them, sound.

I'll come to Macca's defence: sure he often rubs people up the wrong way (including me), but often his advice is good & worth reading.
Occasionally he writes some dribble but hey, if everyone was like "Mr or Ms or Mrs Normal", what a boring place this world would be!

He obviously has a dry & warped sense of humour & shows it with his utilisation of a toilet seat as a folding picnic table - I bet it weighs less than a traditionally built table - just hope it doesn't have another less savoury use in his car, yacht or caravan!

Warren

macka17 · Guru

And he loves you lot too.

We can't ALL. be brilliant can we.

Just leave it up to me heyyyyyyy....

Chuckle.

If a person can't laugh at life.
what life has he (really?) got. I reckon.

I beeen clinically ded once. Bone Cancer. 2 x Melanoma's.

ME I'm like a cat. 5 lives to go yet hey.

EVERYBODY is ALWAYS right...
Some of the time.

MEEEeeeeee Included.

Just that some. Bite. more than others.
They never learn do they....

Off to watch tele with lady friend and a good cuppa coffee.

Give them all time to think up some more negative thorts.

PS. Warren.

Don't worry mate. Di washes it with disinfectant once a week.

Whether I use it or not. OK.

with or without. My head in ther.

-- Edited by macka17 on Tuesday 18th of July 2017 07:35:29 PM

macka17 · Guru

PS.
That's NOT me in photo.
I have a No 2 over head. Trimmed beard.
and bigger belly.
VERY similar facial expressions though.
With the right attitude in life.

ENJOY.... You ain't here for long.
Me 75. and every yr is shorter by a long way.