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Kudos to dinosaur circuit boards

P.O. had installed a Dometic fridge board in 2004 with part no. 3850415-01, On my 1996 295.
Recently I had no a.c. or l.p. fridge use.
I Mistakenly ordered dinosaur P'711 replacement
Board for the 1996 Dometic board 2931843-03.
Dinosaur telephone tech, named Guy, whose been in electronics since 1950''s talked me through changing 3 wires around today.
Excellent service from Guy and Dinosaur Electronics. Fired right up after plugging in a.c. cord and turned on 12v salesman switch.
Tom Shannon
Ham Radio W7OT
1996 u295 (SOLD)
2007 Kia Spectra Ex 5spd (kiki)
Now in Apt

Re: Kudos to dinosaur circuit boards

Reply #1 –
They are awesome. American made. Never had one fail. Have sold maybe 20.Tech support is awesome. Even if it's someone else's board.
Chris
Chris and Tammy White  CDA Idaho
Previous owners 1997 U295 36' 3126 Cat 300 HP Build # 4998
Former Foretravel tech & RVIA certified tech
Former owner Custom Satellite home/RV satellites 
Former owner Vans LTD  van conversions
Unemployed, panhandler, drag racer NHRA #6348

Re: Kudos to dinosaur circuit boards

Reply #2 –
Quote from: gracerace –
They are awesome. American made. Never had one fail. Have sold maybe 20.Tech support is awesome. Even if it's someone else's board.
They are! I've used them for years; might as well, if you buy a new unit that has boards,  rip the 'factory' one's out and replace them with Dinosaurs!  ^.^d
1993 U-240 "La Villa Grande"..CAT 3116 w/ Pacbrake PRXB...Allison 3060 6-speed..
Previous: 1983 Airstream 310 turbo diesel, 1979 Airstream 280 turbo diesel
                                      Build # 4297
                                      PNW natives
                      Home base:  'Cactus Hug' (Ajo, Arizona)
                        DW Judy & Chet the wonder dog
                        Full-Timers 'Sailing the asphalt sea'

Re: Kudos to dinosaur circuit boards

Reply #3 –
I replaced my previous coach's Dometic board with a Dinosaur and it immediately solved a couple nagging problems. The Dinosaur tech support was great in helping me diagnose the problems. My current coach has a Norcold which is working great with the original board and I'm a firm believer in Murphy's Law so I'm sticking with what I have for now.
1993 U225 Build #: 4285
500 Watts Solar
Honda CRV AWD
Former 1981 Foretravel Travco
Retired, Full Time Off Grid Snowbird
 

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I replaced my Dometic 7832 circuit board with the Dinosaur P711, which smoked after circa four years. I hoped that the dinosaur board would fix the intermittent spontaneous turn off (fridge cooled off), however, replacing the eye brow board fixed that problem. When the dinosaur board smoked, and would not turn the cooling on, I reinstalled the original Dometic board which is still working 18 months later. The dinosaur board did support more temperature adjustments.
Wyatt
96 U320 40 WTFE, build 4943
84 Toyota Supra towd
2015 Jeep Wrangler towd
Victoria, BC, Canada