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Originally Posted by Loneoak
Try this: turn the fridge off for a minute, then on again around 9 pm. If you turn it on at a different time of day (like in the morning), it will go through a defrost cycle in the afternoon instead of in the night.
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This is excellent advise. The defrost time on a Dometic 1350 is 60 hrs after power on then every 48hrs there after. The cycle lasts around 2 hrs. Probably not the same for the Norcolds so check your manual or google your model number. Its much better to have this occur at night than in the heat of the day. Playing catch-up in 90+ degrees is near impossible. I turn ours on around 3PM so it will start the defrost cycle at 3AM.
Just a FYI - On our Dometic 1350 unit it requires all power to be disconnected from fridge for a defrost reset to occur. From converter and batteries. Simply turning the unit off at the fridge will not work. It also takes a couple minutes not just a quick off and on.