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Thanks all for the responses to toilet....went back to boat and it was working again...does this often but have kids who could have put toilet paper in it.....Some other questions for all...it is the second season with my 328 and have some questions...1st.....when on battery power my cabin fridge leaks but doesn't on shore power...normal??? 2nd...when it rains I have water seeping under the console in cockpit...checked to see if top was leaking or window and it wasn't can't figure out where it would be coming from...it has me baffled...is there an area I should be looking for? It is a strange place for water to be coming from...there is no water in the aft cabin...anyone else had this problem?

I have never had a marine refrigerator, but I know something about house refrigerators...so here is a theory:

Surfaces on the outside (or underneath) the refrigerator can be cool enough to be below the dew point, and therefore coalesce moisture out of the air into liquid water. Designs can include dew prevention heaters...low wattage heater strips that prevent the outside surfaces from getting as cool. If this marine refrigerator has dew prevention heaters, it would make sense that they would be activated on shore power, but not be activated on battery to save power. So dew accumulation would only happen on battery power. Just my theory. Perhaps the refrigerator operating manual would say something about this, or list a different wattage requirement on shore power vs battery.

Ray

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'87 Chaparral 198CXL 4.3 OMC Cobra
'69 Jetstar 16ft Ski Boat, 115hp Yamaha
'68 Aluminum Jon Boat, 3hp Sears
'64 Water Wings

I find my frig simply doesn't work as well on battery as it does on 120V - have you verified that it's actually staying cold while on battery?

One possibility for the leak is the seal under the windshield (between the aluminum and the fibre glass) - mine leaks here and runs down the small channel just inside the windshield, around the edge and out the hole under the side windows. At least that's the theory - when it rains hard this channel can have a hard time keeping up, since I haven't repaired the leak yet. Check all the caulked joints near this channel, there could be gaps where the water runs in.

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