Isotherm upright fridge

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At first glance they appear to be very fuel efficient (buldging eyes), dunno how they tested them though. There are other 12v uprights of course.

the other thing is, have you ever opened the fridge at home and felt the cold air drop out pretty quickly onto your feet? that is because cold air is heavier than warm air.
this could present a problem with opening and closing an upright , especially in a hot car.
or just make sure your have plenty of imodium handy.

To spend that amount of money, I'd be gettin an Engel upright.

Hi Roachie,
I have a CR190l Isotherm indel marine fridge. Have had it for 3 years or so.
When it works it isn't bad. Very low consumption for batteries for a 190l about 2a. It _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx about 6a max but that isn't for very long.

I do have issues though. Right from the start it didn't work. The gas had found an escape route. Fixed under warranty.
I used it for a couple of weeks and it was good. Bit slow to cool but maintained between 1-4 deg in fridge and -5 to -10 in freezer with little contents.

It then sat for a year before using it again and it once again failed to work (freezer fine but fridge not worling). Got it fixed again (under warranty) Used it for another couple of weeks (in summer again) and it was great.

It has sat for another 12 months and it failed again just last week when I went to use it. Same problem as before.

I am getting it fixed again and will find out deeper what the problem is.
I am tempted to pass it off once fixed but when looking at the Waeco HDC190, it looks identical. Even the compressor and sizes are the same.
I think I will stick with it. It should be just a mechanical repair and that could happen to any fridge.

I am not knocking them as I think they have great potential in the right environment. BTW I am almost finshed the caravan project, so the long standing time should be a thing of the past.

As far as reliability goes, they use a Danfoss compressor BD50F and a small fan to pass air over the coils. The coils are well mounted to the body and the hinges etc are also robust enough. Not much could go wrong (one would think).

Hope this helps.
Cam