fridge-freezers

The fridge that I am really looking at seriously buying is a waeco with the extra battery pac.
The fridge will be in a aluminium box in front of our 4wd camper trailer.
I live in a very remote area of Australia and its about 9 hour drive to the closest shop.I only get out to do the shopping every 3 months so I would like to have icecream frozen when I get home for a change.Dry ice can be hard to get sometimes.
We would like the fridge to be used to bring the shopping home and to be used for serious isolated camping.
The fridge will have to handle rough dirt roads.Going to town is half dirt.

The fridge that I am really looking at seriously buying is a waeco with the extra battery pac.
The fridge will be in a aluminium box in front of our 4wd camper trailer.
I live in a very remote area of Australia and its about a 9 hour drive to the closest shop.I only get out to do the shopping every 3 months so I would like to have icecream frozen when I get home for a change.Dry ice can be hard to get sometimes.
We would like the fridge to be used to bring the shopping home and to be used for serious isolated camping.
The fridge will have to handle rough dirt roads.Going to town is half dirt.
What do you think????????

SteveA
Thanks for the help.
I looked at the site & I dont know anything about the brand so I have asked them to send me more info.

Thank You for the very quick responses. It looks like WAECO is the way to go.

One really good reason I didn't go that way(waeco/engel) is because the dealer said to me that we have heaps of spare parts for these fridges. Sorry that turned me off straight away. The unit should be tough enough to go rock hopping or just up the beach,just my thoughts anyway.
Steve

SteveA the brand you bought still has a Danfoss compressor. It does not matter if it is an Explorer, Waeco, evaKool, Bushman etc. they all use the same Danfoss compressor.
So the dealer who told you they have heaps of spares for Waeco and Engel, the Waeco spares would cover your Explorer as well, as it is Danfoss equipped.

Out of all the fridges I have owned personally, Engel has been the biggest disaster. I have motors go in three units, and they want $600+ dollars for a new compressor and installation. It is absolute extortion. At least with a Danfoss unit, the reliability factor is there, and you know what they are going to cost to repair. The volume of Danfoss compressors out there far exceeds Engel.

Desert all Danfoss equipped units can have a High/Low switch. This is built into the Danfoss control board. However, many manufacturers do not bother to put a high/low switch on the units. Reason is, in the end the compressor still requires the same amount of amperage to achieve the same low tempreture.
If your Danfoss equipped fridge does not have a High/Low switch, they are easy enough to fit if you really want one.

Desert gave him a call today and he seems to know what he is talking about. We are going to melb. @ xmas and might pick one up. Thanks for the tip .

Hi there desert, I have a 90litre Leimack front opener, i love it, i really believe it is the best fridge, 60litre fridge and 30 litre freezer. It has front opening for 4x4 wagons, electronic voltage cut out and plenty more as you would know. The battery thing is a problem if you run only 1 battery, you really must have two 4x4 batteries 15 plate batteries connected in parallel with no isolation solenoid. We did a trip up through the middle in our diesel 4.2 patrol with one battery in October a few years ago and found i was taking it for a drive about 8pm at night to get the fridge through till the next morning. But since we fitted two batteries in parllel, no more problems. If two batteries cant be fitted then there is no owning a Leimack. Any way this post is not very revelant now as i have found out a few weeks go that Leimack have gone into receivership with no reason given. Anyone that has one and has any problems, there is a telephone number on their web site, they are still happy to help people keep their fridges going. Best regards Michael.