Waeco CF 80 Nothing But Problems

You are right Ange. It could happen to any brand but by the large amount of failures mentioned on this site there is one brand that seems to fail more than the rest. But not to worry they can always justify the cheap purchase price by the excellent warrenty thats provided.
I had an unlucky friend too, 3 lids, 2 latches, 1 light & 1 complete exchange ;-)
Cheers Craig.........

The main warranty jobs I heard of before were from the lids warping which they changed a while back to fix the problem. My 80L has worked perfectly since I got it over a year ago. My only complaint is that the lid is too big and it loses too much cold air each time you get a drink out.

And that would be fairly often eh Ben?

Waeco's use the German made danfoss COMPRESSOR

However....

Waeco did use electronics sourced from a Pacific Rim country, possibly China, Korea etc and they had some problems with them.

Now compressors including relevant electronics are from Germany.

sounds like your mates 12 volt input was up the creek????
they use a danfoss 12vdc compressor?
so on 240 it must have a 240vac-12vdc tranny!
the 12 vdc output and car 12vdc at some point in the wiring is common to the compressor circuit?
if so it has to be the 12 v dc input supply!

not sure if i am right about the two 12volt systems being common on the waeco...but as i have this on my fridge, i am assuming that it may be the same as it wouldnt hurt if it was common....

Willie ,, before answering check your facts ,, the Waeco uses a bd35 or a bd50 danfoss compressor ,,, uses 12/ 24V ,,, No direct 240volt so please explain how your mates only works on 240v ,ABSOLUTLY IMPOSSIBLE.

Alloy ,

Your right , I'm a goose . I just emailed my mate to find out what the problem was . We had to run the Waeco on the generator to make it work as a freezer whereas the Engel worked great on the battery .It was a real bummer as we were out for three weeks and had to keep stuff frozen .

Cheers ,

Willie .

your right...what exactly do you mean by that....your right to what ?
maybe you mean you're right...which is it
I'm only a dumb bastard...please explain
yes I've been on the turps

Sorry, just ignore me.

His right to Goose, Geese or otherwise Ray. It depends on the Genus, Branta, Cereopsis, Chen or Anser but can be explained away simply by the following:

When Aphrodite first came ashore she was welcomed by the Charites (Roman "Graces"), whose chariot was drawn by geese.

There are Mother Goose tales, such as a farmwife might have told; there is the proverbial goose that laid the golden eggs, warning about the perils of greed. And there is the goose as a veiled reference to the bleep in the verses
Goosy Goosy Gander, where dost thou wander?
Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber.

The geese in the temple of Juno on the Capitoline were said by Livy to have saved Rome from the Gauls around 390 BC when they were disturbed in a night attack. The story may be an attempt to explain the origin of the sacred flock of geese at Rome.

There is a tale of Trickster and the geese in the North American Trickster cycle [1] Maybe also TRUCKSTER.(http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.Trickster&Geese.html).

Liliane Bodson and Daniel Marcolungo, L'oie de bon aloi: Aspects de l'histoire ancienne de l'oie domestique [The goose in ancient life and folklore]. Vise (Mus�e Regional d'Archeologie et d'Histoire de Vise), 1994, discusses the image and lore of domestic geese in classical antiquity, with a separate chapter on the goose in folklore.

cant the waeco's run on 240?...dont they have an inbuilt 240-12vdc tranny?

hey bonz...its too early in the morning.....!

bugga me goeff....what you been drinking
???

lol Nudie, I am juiced on life hahahahah ....but I may have picked on the wrong goose, I continue.......

Goose can have some other meanings in slang.
A fool (common in the works of Wodehouse) or someone who is shy (also goosy/goosey).
An (usually friendly, but possibly sexual) "attack" - the buttocks of another person are pinched between forefinger and thumb.

Now I woudnt take anyone for a fool, hence I am interested now in the situation for said "attack" that Willie admitted to, in a public forum, above, before I forward the whole macabre situation to the appropriate authorities.

But of course the etymology of the term is even more pertinent:

Goose in its origins is one of the oldest words of the Indo-European languages, the modern names deriving from the proto-Indo-European root, ghans, hence Sanskrit hamsa (feminine hamsii), Latin anser, Greek kh�n etc.

In the Germanic languages, the root word led to Old English gos with the plural g�s, German Gans and Old Norse gas. Other modern derivatives are Russian gus and Old Irish g�iss.

In non-technical use, the male goose is called a "gander" (Anglo-Saxon gandra) and the female is the "goose".

I case my rest.

And of course, as I have ben told by a wise woman....

When the game is up, one's goose is cooked!

Wow, that's a great answer Geoff, you have put my mind at rest. I'll have to pass that on to the kids so they don't have to spend the next 30 years chasing the answer.....err, what was the question again ?

Apologies to Willie

this is to hard to take in at this time of the morning lol lol

your not kiddin nudie, never mind it's a lovely morning and a great day for the race.

race? that was last tuesday!
or do they hold races in vic on saturdays too?

The Human Race

yep the Human Race....you gonna join us Nudie :)
Sorry mate couldn't resist

Mad Dog , Nudenut , Bonz ,
I just pulled up my email and there was this list running down the page discussing "geese" . I meant goose , as in me being stupid ( common in the works of Wodehouse ! ). Adding to what Bonz said in his goosay , I saw some very interesting frescos in Italy showing that Romans did not only eat their geese .
Anyway, I have become discombobulated now and I'm going back to watch the cricket .
Willie .

you all speak a foriegn language lol lol

and whats discombobulated mean?....cant be bothered getting the dictionary out.....

why would any one want to watch a cricket.....oh you have a pet cricket!
.......................
weird?
like their music eh?

not only eat their geese
gee i wonder what else...trained them to behave like turkeys?

Well Willie what did you expect?? One cannot pose the questions of our time and not expect spirited response and debate.....

Nudie, discombobulated is widely regarded as a confusing word as noted below in GBS's prose.

having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion; "the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand"; "looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted"- G.B.Shaw

One could say, that in the process of being "goosed", one may temporarily become discombobulated, and make a "goose" out of oneself. Other more learned scholars pose that this hass already happened and we are the product of that discombobulation.

Whatever happens, the cricket will sing until you stomp on the ground near his location, whereby he shuts up, wisely appling the age old idoim, "I don't think I can take that foot again"

Stick to the real deal Blue. Diet anything is a product of the 'dark side'.

I think the point is that it should not need to be 'sorted'. When you pay big dollars for an electrical device, it should work with no problems setting it up. Unless of course it has an operating system run by Microsoft. Seriously, fridge technology is pretty well known by now and you should be able to get it out of the package, attach it wherever you're going to fit it and plug it in. The only tricky bit should relate to keeping the battery(ies) charged. I have a 9 year old Engel 40L which has been exactly like that. Mounted it in the 4by and it worked faultlessly for a 20,000km jaunt around the block with lots of big corrugations. Since that, it has done party duty and Christmas duty for years, as well as a few minor trips.

Off topic I know.........but what you just described is what I think should be the case with GPS's and all this bloody Oziexplorer stuff.
I have a GPS......I have a laptop.......I have the oziexplorer disk thingo's that fit into the cd drive of the laptop.........I have a serial port plug and matching socket on the back of the laptop. So, why the friggin-hell can't I just plug the bloody thing in to one-another and have it "hey-presto" up and running????????/

Until then, the whole bloody thing is just a dust catcher...... hahaha ;-((

I feel much better now that I've got that off my chest.

Hmm, whats the problem Roachie, gps and lappy not talking ? Maybe anotherpost will have it sorted for you.

Continuing off topic sorry. Roachie - if anything in your house like your TV, fridge, washing machine had any problem at all, you'd be off like a shot to the dealer/agent to have it fixed. But, people sort of seem to accept all this shyte of a computer and don't compain. I have never really understood this attitude, but until a computer works like my as troulbe free as my TV or washing machine, I won't be happy. Seems I may never be happy. I work with computers every day, but I often get very frustrated when things crash. I have never even seen a GPS, but do they need a driver to work? Software driver that is.

Roachie, check the GPS is set for NMEA in/out and that Ozi is set to receive that also. It'll wirk then

Dek,

1. Not getting enough power
2. Not normal. When set high, tend to run 10 minutes on, 10 minutes off.
3. See an auto elec. Sounds like you're running it off your start battery? Very dangerous, a CF 80 draws a lot of power.
4. If you email your postal address to me at jim dot best at myer dot com dot au I'll happily photocopy the manual and post it to you.

Cheers,

Jim.

Thanks Jim, will email you. Had it set to high the whole time so will keep an eye on it. I have a dual battery setup (redarc) so was assuming that the power was coming from the spare battery and not from the cranking battery (seem to remember that when the car is not running, any power required comes from the spare - little red light comes on). Maybe if the ignition is on everything comes from the cranking battery - opps!! Wil have to check. Thanks,for your help.

Dek,

When you email me, give me a phone number. I'll call you during the week to talk about it; so much easier than typing.

Cheers,

Jim.

Done. Talk to you next week.

Dek, if you rewire with 6mm to the rear outlet, take the feed from the auxuiliary battery, will fix 1 and 3 both at once. The rear outlet would be an original instal and would come from the start battery so ge it rewired. The red light you mention is the one on tthe Redarc? if it is it means that the power is coming from both batts, once it swiches off it means the power comes from one or t'other, i.e. the connections broke