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Old 12-28-2008, 03:35 AM   #1
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On this refrigerator, Dometic NDR1292, it only takes about 4 or 5 weeks and the ice build up is unbelievable. I'm wondering if this is a common problem and do others have this same problem?

Granted we are in south Texas during the winter and the humidity is high from time to time, but not always that bad.

I'm wondering if there's any tricks I can do, or am I just stuck with the problem?
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Old 12-28-2008, 03:35 AM   #2
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On this refrigerator, Dometic NDR1292, it only takes about 4 or 5 weeks and the ice build up is unbelievable. I'm wondering if this is a common problem and do others have this same problem?

Granted we are in south Texas during the winter and the humidity is high from time to time, but not always that bad.

I'm wondering if there's any tricks I can do, or am I just stuck with the problem?
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Old 12-28-2008, 03:27 PM   #3
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Bob, I am not an expert on this subject.I suppose you are speaking about ice on the cooling fins in the refrigerator section. Depending on where the temperature sensor is located on the fins, you can move it to adjust the temp. I'm sure someone with more experience will also tune in.
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Old 12-30-2008, 02:30 PM   #4
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We have a Dometic NDR1282. Our refer would need to be defrosted every 2 or 3 weeks. We had the unit checked out by a Dometic technician at FMCA a year or so ago. He found that the unit was working as designed. He checked the door gaskets and could find nothing wrong. He said that the ice build up is typical. He did suggest that we leave some space in the back. Do not push things right up against the fins. Allow some room for air circulation.

We tested out the battery-operated fans that go inside to keep the air moving. They did not help.

We tried turning temperature up. We run on the lowest setting (#1). After some checking we determined that the refer was cold enough inside. Top shelf is the warmest, 2nd from top coldest, 3rd not as cold as 2, 4th not as cold as 3, bottom drawers not as cold as 4. NO MORE ICE in refer. Freezer still ices up badly. Check it out… your mileage may vary. Humidity did not seem to be a factor. When it is real hot outside, we lower tempature to #2.

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Roger... when your setting is at #1 or #2 have you checked to see what temperature this maintains in the refer?

Maybe we're keeping ours too cold. We typically run ours on #3 unless it gets really hot out and then its on #4.

This usually keeps the temperature in the 38 to 41 range.
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It has been awhile, however it went something like this:
Top shelf 45 degrees
2nd from top 36 degrees
3rd from top 37 degrees
4th from top 40 degrees
Bottom (drawers 45 degrees)

The way I checked is I would measure temperature of an item on that shelf after the door being closed all night long. We just adjusted where we stored stuff in the refer. Beer goes on the coldest shelf!

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NDR1292 Ice in Fridge

Hi Bob,

FYI, we full timed in our MH for 3 years & had/have am NDR1292. And yes, we noted a lot of ice buildup in the fridge. Like you, more often than not we had ours set on #3. I found that I could monitor the ice buildup in the fridge & evry few days when I saw it building up, I could set the fridge down to #1, usually for several hours or overnight, and the ice would melt. Then when I noted there was no ice I'd turn the control back up to #3. Got so good at this that I never defrosted the fridge any other way. Now the freezer was anothe animal -- every couple months I'd shut the fridge off, boil water, put pans in the freezer & defrost it -- what a pain.

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