Portable fridge/freezer temps

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Originally Posted by DX grunt

I've tried 95lt Evakool on 750 w gennie and it gets the temp down, but appears to work better on my 12v in my truck and proper 240V. Love the remote sensor too.
I accidentally let my fridge drop from the back of my truck to the ground. I was absolutely ropeable and angry at myself. It still works fine. Read the warranty, and looks like I might have voided it, but we'll see - IF I have any issues down the track. One of the warranty things is that it must be serviced after the 2nd, 3rd and 4th and I think, 5th years.

Ciggy plug..... my fridge has a fault meter and one beep reckons its a power problem. As soon as I plug it into my 12 v via Meritt plug in the back, fault goes. I upgraded my wiring from fridge to merrit plug to 6mm. Haven't touched the ciggy plug yet. It'll be interesting to see. I know nothing about 12v so I'll be talking to 'someone'. Maybe fletcha can tell me if upgrading my ciggy wiring will help.

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Yeh saw that in the warrenty, might stick to it if its not too costly. Good to hear they bounce ok and it didnt break! Merit plugs are good, the feedback i saw said to getrid of the normal ciggy plug fitting, I think as long as it cant shake out of the socket is the main thing. Chuck up some temps and what setting youre dial is on to compare! Doing one today in the back off the car, put some frozen stuff in freezer and milk etc in the fridge side, ambient is 30.6 and im'e on no. 9 setting and freezer is only at -14 ?????? Going too leave it abit longer to see whats happening. Last test inside on 240V (which shoulnt differ cause the transformer turns it too 12V) same ambient setting 6-7 had it at -18-19.

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Originally Posted by 89GQ

Yeh saw that in the warrenty, might stick to it if its not too costly. Good to hear they bounce ok and it didnt break! Merit plugs are good, the feedback i saw said to getrid of the normal ciggy plug fitting, I think as long as it cant shake out of the socket is the main thing. Chuck up some temps and what setting youre dial is on to compare! Doing one today in the back off the car, put some frozen stuff in freezer and milk etc in the fridge side, ambient is 30.6 and im'e on no. 9 setting and freezer is only at -14 ?????? Going too leave it abit longer to see whats happening. Last test inside on 240V (which shoulnt differ cause the transformer turns it too 12V) same ambient setting 6-7 had it at -18-19.

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Reading betwen the lines by what everybody has said, set it up a couple of days before, make sure all your frozen stuff is frozen before you put it in, and you should be fine.
I run an extension cord from the house to my truck and do it that way. Saves battery power.

On the jenny, I crank it up all the way, and it's fine. Gunna try it out in my truck with a 4hr drive today (about now), with the remote sensor in my cab so I can keep an eye on it.

Rossco

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Originally Posted by DX grunt

Reading betwen the lines by what everybody has said, set it up a couple of days before, make sure all your frozen stuff is frozen before you put it in, and you should be fine.
I run an extension cord from the house to my truck and do it that way. Saves battery power.

On the jenny, I crank it up all the way, and it's fine. Gunna try it out in my truck with a 4hr drive today (about now), with the remote sensor in my cab so I can keep an eye on it.

Rossco

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yeh had it on before, let us know youre temps and setting when you get back, Cheers Jeff

Most family coolers, by and large, work inside a 4ºC to 7ºC territory. Setting your setting camping refrigerator any lower than that might be pointless with regards to control utilization.

Who is brave enough to click on the link?

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Originally Posted by mudnut

Who is brave enough to click on the link?

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Not me.

And if you want to keep your milk at 7 degrees, I'll have mine black no sugar thanks!

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Originally Posted by mudnut

Who is brave enough to click on the link?

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I went in the back end and had a look under the hyperlink. It is safe to click. He is selling fridges but there is probably some good info there.

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Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD

I went in the back end and had a look under the hyperlink. It is safe to click. He is selling fridges but there is probably some good info there.

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In plain text:
https://www.bougerv.com/collections/12v-refrigerator

Chinese spam courtesy of:
Registrar Info
NameAlibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.


FWIW, On the original topic.
I would stick to brand name units (danfoss, dometic, challenger, isotherm etc - pretty much in that order.)
Chinese units run longer and have crappier insulation (using more power to achieve the same temps) -even the ones that use brand name compressors (I'm looking at you, jaycar)

Freezing at -16 and refrigeration at -2 to 4°C
Lots of thermal mass, (beer cans)

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Originally Posted by mihit

In plain text:
https://www.bougerv.com/collections/12v-refrigerator

Chinese spam courtesy of:
Registrar Info
NameAlibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.


FWIW, On the original topic.
I would stick to brand name units (danfoss, dometic, challenger, isotherm etc - pretty much in that order.)
Chinese units run longer and have crappier insulation (using more power to achieve the same temps) -even the ones that use brand name compressors (I'm looking at you, jaycar)

Freezing at -16 and refrigeration at -2 to 4°C
Lots of thermal mass, (beer cans)

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Yeah I didn't really care about the source and only ensuring it wasn't a Trojan or something. They clearly read enough of the thread and applied logic to their post that effort was accepted. We get Smashed by Bots Daily and I do a fair bit of cleaning up, I'm happy to leave this one there, it contributed.

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Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD

Yeah I didn't really care about the source and only ensuring it wasn't a Trojan or something. They clearly read enough of the thread and applied logic to their post that effort was accepted. We get Smashed by Bots Daily and I do a fair bit of cleaning up, I'm happy to leave this one there, it contributed.

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I'd be surprised if it was a "they"...but I don't know what pronouns bots prefer :D
Probably just scanned for keywords, a semi-english sentence generator.

Anyway, cheers for the behind-the-scenes mod work. Generally thankless task and most people probably don't even know it's happening, but it makes the net a much saner place. :smiley_thumbs_up: