vlad

All good links, thanks. I know my limitations, but when I questioned two techs about this problem, both recomended replacement. What a shock. Your second link was what I was looking for as far as how far to disassemble, i.e. part #6, just the cover. I like the settling explanation, and the disuse theory works for almost everything, including us, unfortunately. Thanks for your help.

That I did not do. Seemed like it was tight with insulation, and nothing above was blocking the vent to the roof. I'll take it apart and see.

Plugged the refer direct to AC and the heating element worked. Let it run for 4 hours, put it back into the GFI circuit, did'nt trip the GFI. Ran it on gas, cooled as well. Hasn't been used in 5 years. Can anyone help me understand what happened?

Great forum and thanks for your help. In trying to routine my new 93 Dolphin, I find the refrigerator (dometic rm2410) won't work on gas or electric. Plugging it in trips the gfi every time. In order to test I'm supposing I have to bring voltage to the unit by bypassing the gfi which feeds it on the load side. Im hesitatant to do this being unfamiliar with the cause of the ground fault being triggered. Anyone have any experience troubleshooting this particular problem? Fridge is level, ventilated, gas pilot does light, but no cooling. steve