Red wires provide power to the board so removing them will shut it down. Jumping the fuse will work. A fuse from Radio Shack should be an adequate substitute.
Picked up a couple of thermal fuses at a Radio Shack store yesterday. The fuses have a coned end and a flat end. The packaging says the flat end is the sensitive fused end and to locate the fuse with this in mind. The closer the flat end is to the...
Radio Shack has thermal fuses that look very much like the ones Dometic is retrofitting. There's a maximum voltage listed (240v) so I don't know if they will work on 12 volts but at $1.50 a few simple experiments with a 12 volt source, a fuse and a ...