Thursday, Feb 24, 2005 at 14:14
Hi Duncs,
Well we'll put our hand up, we have got one. Yes we thought the price was a bit high, but at the end of the day it just clips on and is a done and finished job.
This is where we are at to this stage.
When we first got it we found that it wasnt stacking the cold, so I rung Arron at 2 zone ( couldn't meet a more helpful person)
We then discovered that the 2 zone wasnt sealing where it attached to the engel, arron offered to send another on over, but I told him, rather than go through the pain I would fix it here(which I did)
From there we did a little testing, firstly without the 2 zone on the engel.
To have the 2 zone compartment cold (0-2 deg) our engel has to be set at about -12.5
At the moment here we are having temperatures of 35 degrees (we in NQ)
The engel without the 2 zone on it was running 14 minutes and off for 4 minutes.
(give or take 10 secs)
When we cliped on the 2 zone we found the fridge after about an hour was running nearly the same as it was without the 2 zone, if anything it run approx 10 the 15 secs longer. the engel was -12.5 deg and the 2 zone was 2 deg
Ok I dont want to get into a debate with any of these legends kicking around.
From info that we had available to us the 40 ltr and 60 ltr have the same compressor.
The 60 ltr draws a bit more current because of more capacity.
With the 2 zone it is similar,its going to draw more because you have to set the engel a bit lower in cooling to get the 2 zone area down.
The principle of the 2 zone is that it relies on the cold air stacking as the temp comes down.
We have found it to be a great thing, if we want to take a 60ltre fridge bush we clip on the 2 zone, if we are not going for as long we just take the engel.
We run it off a second battery Cranking one (shock horror) N70zz or something like that and one of those dreaded redarc systems hahahahaha. It will run the fridge with the 2 zone on it for 24 hours in 30-35deg temp before the battery is down to 11.8 volts.
We have only got one 40watt solar at the moment and we havent tried it with the 2 zone yet, ( still trying to desifer the info thats out there on solar panels) it is more than likely we will need another 40 watt panel to maintain the battery.
When we never had the 2 zone, and travelling around the gulf country up here we would get approx 2 days (11.4) without starting the vehicle.
but as I said before it because your asking the fridge to run colder its going to draw more.
We except that because with the outside temp being 35 and the fridge at -12.5 that is getting close to maximising the fridges capabilities ie 50 below ambient temp.
I hope this helps a bit as before we got one, we asked in the forums and it was hard to get any info from people who actually had one.
Its easy to say get a 60 ltr one, but these fridges are a big investment to start with, so we had to make do with what we got. The other thing is our vehicle is setup to how we want it and going a bigger fridge was going to upset our floor plan, with the 2 zone we were able to go upwards without any probs.
Cheers
Please note this is our actual experience not taken from written literature.
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Follow Up By: Mad Dog (Victoria) - Thursday, Feb 24, 2005 at 14:31
Thursday, Feb 24, 2005 at 14:31
Great report Nebster, thanks. There appears to be a number of satisfied users around.
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