240v/12v change over

Derek,

Thank you for the conformation, I thought that is how it works but did not want to blow the fridge up a day before I went away.

Wayne

Do Engel have something new with the power plugs? Mines about 15 years old and I have 2 seperate power cords for 12 and 240 volt. There's a sliding door on the fridge plug to plug in the apprpopriate lead

Roktruk. You have one of the old green Engels like mine. With that model there is no automatic change over. The only way to change over is to change cables

Ray is correct, but some of the grey ones (39 litre) also had the same system. It is important that if you own one of those older ones with the little plastic sliding "door" which blocks off either one or the other of the 2 inlet sockets; that you DON'T ever get tempted to remove the plastic slide and attempt to do what Wayne has described in his post. You WILL blow-up your fridge if you do so.

I had one of those earlier ones but now have the newer 40 litre version. I leave the fridge on 24/7. At home, I just plug the 240 into the socket on the back of the box and it takes over the running of the Engel automatically as well as firing-up the 3 stage battery charger. Too easy.

Even with the sliding gate removed, you physically can't get both cords in as they share a common pin in the centre.
Although in the crude form, the sliding gate is an electrical interlock, interlocks are not meant to be defeated.

Cheers,
Dion.

My Engel is so old that it doesn't have a slide gate any more but you can't plug both 240 and 12 in at the same time as there is not room and as Dion stated, one pin is common to both voltages