Compressor fridge question

[marchie]

I'd like a from the neck down mirror

Me too - important to hide the brass

Steve

 

[mark61]

Lets not forget Susan Penhooligan though.

 

[Fazerloz]

It's just a touch smaller than our fridge, for piece of mind you would need to double solar and 50a bat/bat with 200ah LA or 100 lith. That would roughly give you 3 days stationary should you want or need it in winter.. Summer you would have no problems I would think. With those changes.

 

[alcam]

Too technical for me Kev, but my compressor fridge works absolutely fine in high temperatures and uses naff all battery power.

Since fitting I only use gas for hot water and hearing (and the heating goes electric this week) and I’ve never replaced a gas bottle since.

Diesel heating , gas hot water and cooking . Compressor fridge .
Had the van 15 months not refilled gas yet

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Diesel heating , gas hot water and cooking . Compressor fridge .
Had the van 15 months not refilled gas yet

How often do you wild camp or stay on sites with EHU?

 

[alcam]

How often do you wild camp or stay on sites with EHU?

EHU maybe 5% of the time

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Seems okay, of course, you might be set up to do it better than in the OP, which seems to be a minimum.

 

[wildebus]

This is the actual fridge

Thetford T2138 12V Slimline Fridge

Those Fridges are very nice. As you can see from the price, it is a top end jobby.
I was considering one of those to replace my Thetford 3-Way but decided to get an LEC 240V Compressor Fridge with the same kind of Fridge and Freezer capacity at around 1/4 of the price.
Power-wise, 50Ah/24Hrs give or take for a Fridge/Freezer is pretty typical. Sorry to those who say their Compressor Fridges uses virtually no power ... nonsense. I used to see posts on the VW Forum about how someone fitted a compressor fridge and it ran fine for a whole weekend festival on their - for the time - fairly minimal power setup. But they ommited the fact they would load it up with frozen water, turn it off overnight and it would be empty by Sunday morning anyway - so the "whole weekend" added up to maybe 24 hours of being switched on

Too technical for me Kev, but my compressor fridge works absolutely fine in high temperatures and uses naff all battery power.

Sorry, Kev, but "naff all battery power" equals 42Ah/24Hrs going by the link you posted of the fridge you have, which is identical to the spec of the fridge Kevin quoted

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I do like the new fridges where they can open on either side, Liz would be really confused by that idea.

 

[marchie]

Lets not forget Susan Penhooligan though.

She could have the top off my boiled egg anytime ... Loved her in Buckets of Barbed Wire

Steve

 

[alcam]

Seems okay, of course, you might be set up to do it better than in the OP, which seems to be a minimum.

Probably. Not being deliberately vague but I've got around 200w solar and 200ah lithium .
Also move around a fair bit . 20,000 miles in 15 months

 

[wildebus]

I do like the new fridges where they can open on either side, Liz would be really confused by that idea.

Quite neat things and handy - IF your van layout means there is a usefulness to it (many won't. Would be useful to me if I was getting out the shower and wanted to get something out the fridge )

On the flip side, there are reports of the doors falling off as it is apparently quite easy to not lock the door back into the hinges/pegs when closing and when you open the opposite side .... Opps!