EvaKool Died
Submitted: Monday, Mar 31, 2008 at 13:45
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Waynepd (NSW)
Well it finally happened, the faithful ED40 died on me and the shame of it all is it didn't die performing valiantly keeping beers cold on the track somewhere in croc country. It died a somewhat less dignified death as a water cooler next to my bed. Thats sad.
It was about a year ago on
Stockton beach that I first noticed its performance was suffering. It was struggling to keep the temps down even allowing for it being a pretty hot day, it was not doing the job that the Engel in the mate's truck was doing. It usually did the job quite easily.
When I got back from that weekend i decided to run it on power at
home for awhile until it either broke or not. The bloody thing ran like clockwork on 240v until about a week ago. It became my cold storage away from the prying eyes of the teenagers in the house, God I miss it!
I was wondering if it can be recharged or something like a car Air Cond. It hasn't totally died as the compressor keeps trying to cut in but it just won't run. There is a thump as it tries to cut in then it stops for 5 - 10 seconds and then tries to cut in again and this repeats. Making me think that the refrigerant has gone away.
I have had it since 2003, i bought it as a floorstock run-out sale so I have no factory instructions to say whether recharging is a normal thing or not.
Any ideas please.
Reply By: Notso - Monday, Mar 31, 2008 at 14:05
Monday, Mar 31, 2008 at 14:05
Rechargeing is possible on
mine which is an earlier model, 2001, but I would look at the volts going to your system through the fuse holder.
I had a problem with
mine earlier on when it would do something similar to yours, I found that there was a high voltage drop across the fuse holder. As they will stop running at around 11.5 volts it would try to start then as volts dropped due to the hight start load it would then stop.
I bypassed the fuse and have had no trouble since.
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