Sunday, Feb 17, 2008 at 14:01
Ours is a fitted cabinet type (front opening). I guess you could have a chest type fitted to a slide into the cavity for easy access. I am sure Trayon could adapt the cavity to suit.
In all our travels, we have encountered many people with all types of setups and nearly everyone has a fridge failure story to tell..............and you are right, when a fridge stops it IS very stressful. We now carry an 18 litre waeco chest type wherever we go as a back up, just in case! We simply sit this on the floor of the Trayon and have a strap around it to prevent it sliding around the floor.
If you chose to go with a 2 way cabinet type, just be sure you have a "spike" protector to prevent surges of power and you should have no problems. As to the noise problem mentioned in one of your other responses, we simply turn our fridge down a bit during the nights when it is cooler, and don't notice the noise.
It was on our 2004, 3 month trip that we encountered our second failure with the 3 way fridge and fitted the 2 way. The 2 way also failed 4 times on that trip and despite investigations by Engel, it was my husband that figured out the problem......we did not have a "spike" protector fitted between the batteries. Since having a "Redarc" battery isolator fitted, we have had no further problems.
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