Enough is never Enough...Power.....

Yes. Have a second point wired to the back that is connected directly to the second battery. I have three points in the back of my Frontera. I can light it up like a Christmas tree. Two are direct wired and the third is the original on the ignition circuit. Most people will tell you to put another point in the back and wire it with 4mm or even 6mm wire so the fridge works efficiently. Whilst you are putting in a second battery also put in a fused distribution box. (I got mine from a ships chandlers, it has 6 connection points all with thir own spade fuse and cost $40). It does away with having lots of connectors onto the battery terminal with lots of fuses hanging around on wires all over the place. You then only have one wire from the battery to the distribution box. Makes it easier to locate problems , looks tidier and you can label all the connections.
There is lots of info on dual battery systems on the forum, do a search and good luck because its confusing.

It truly is a bugger!

Yep, Fridge...
Second Battery
Third Battery
Fit solenoid to second vehicle
Small modified S/W inverter
Medium M S/W inverter
Full Sine wave inverter
Solar Panel with tripod

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then it gets all too hard

so I then buy a smaller bloody fridge!!

One thing's for sure......

I ain't putting in an electric toaster LOL!!!

Cheers

Don't need to pay my power bill Wolf.

Rod from Rotronics is quite helpful and the way he explained how his system does the job better made sense to me. System has been great to date. Charges 2 deep cycles, one in car and trailer.

Ozman, the plain fact is that you don't NEED a second battery. You have already found that yourself and a mate of mine travelled extensively with one battery and a Waeco. The Waeco is granted a better quality fridge but yours is still quite an economical unit. The only time he had starting problems was once after leaving the vehicle for over 48 hours without running it. A second key is the easy way to leave it running without any extra wiring. The rear outlets in Toyotas have a 120 watt or 10 amp rating so the fridge will work fine on the standard wiring. i have a friend who has an old 3 way. They use heaps of power - over 7amps I think and the standard Toyota rear outlet runs it beautifully! - but not for too long when stationary!!

Did a bit of searching on the net found some good info on batteries , how they operate and what different styles of batteries do. ie agm against gel and wet sell batteries www.fridge-and-solar.net , you need to look in his technical pages. hope this helps
Derraux

Hi Ozman, I manufacture Dual Battery Controllers, but from what you have posted, other that installing another power socket, there is no reason to install anything else, especially going to the expense of a controller and battery that will get very little use.
The only thing you will have to watch is that you don’t stay in one spot for too long without making sure you keep enough charge in the battery to start the vehicle.
Regards

Hi Ozman. Here's my 2 bobs worth. After years of travel with the good old esky we bought a 40 litre Engel 12 months ago. Total confused by all the advice / opinions on duel battery systems we decided to re-invent the wheel. We ran a wire to the back of our Hilux from the cranking battery, plugged in the fridge and drove (we don't run anything else). In the first 8 months of driving we never took it out, never turned it off and didn't modify our driving pattern at all. In that time the battery went flat once. Jump start and away we went. Yeah I know we're in Tassie. In July and August this year we shot up to the Kimberley & back. I bought a second battery but didn't wire it in. Took it just in case, as we travelled alone. Turned the fridge off when we climbed into the tent for some shut eye. Cranking battery never went flat once. Also travelled with a mate last year. April,May, June thru the Centre, Gulf & Cape York. He had a 32 litre Engel wired staight into his cranking battery. Never went flat once. If you want your vehicle's electrics to operate like a house with power guaranteed at the flick of a switch you'd better buy the biggest, flashest dual battery system you can find. If you don't mind keeping it simple, monitoring your battery level and going for a drive if it gets low (there's always something else to go look at aye) then the way we are set up will work. After having operated like this we have no plans to put in a full on dual battery system. Mind you if we had room under the bonnet (Hilux remember) it might be different.

Good Luck with it all.

Roger