Engel 60 litre fridge operation 12 volt or 240 with power inverter.

Herbal Thanks will continue to run 12 volt.

Regards

Mike

Herbal is right, If you run it through a inverter it will probably flatten your battery twice as quick.

Mike
AS Herbal said, the person who told you doesn't know how an Engel fridge works. Not sure if mentally deficient but info/concept deficient.

Any 240v AC fed to it is reduced to around 12v DC so it's own internal converter can produce around 22v alternating power for the compressor.

I use that 22v to run additional computer fans inside the case to shorten run time and aid cooling efficiency.

Hi Ross,

Can you confirm the source power for the extra fan, is it 12v DC or 22v AC ? As I hadn't heard of a 22v fan before. Certainly 12 v fans, they are cheap and plentiful.

Herbal, mate remember the design of the Engel is a portable fridge that can also run on 240, not a household static fridge that can go off road.
Run it and love it on 12 volt, there is only one way you can go wrong on 12 volt, trying to run it on crappy small wiring and/or cheap connectors. Give it a healthy power feed and it will be very happy. Voltage drop at the fridge is not your friend.

Yarda, mate I did not say it was a household static fridge...

What I did say in part was - Running it directly from a battery is fine...That is what it is designed to do - ;)

Sorry Herbal, a brain fart on my part. My comment was meant to be for Mike. Sorry again for the confusion.