Waeco CF80

I would suggest you get a thermometer and test the temp at various places in regards to the setting.

If the setting of, say +4, is at the bottom near the cooling element end, you can be sure it will too warm high up at the other end.

My 80 is the old one without the digital temp setting. Using it as all fridge, the way I set it, it goes from -3 at one end to +4 at the other. This for me is ideal, grog at the cold end, meat in the middle and less sensitive items at the +4 end.

Also you have the "dairy" section; good for fruit and veggies as it sits around +8 to +10. Why they call it "dairy" I'm buggered if I know, I certainly wouldn't store my cheese there.

Cheers,

Jim.

I have the same model and I set it with 3 or 4 green lights on for most of the time. It does depend a bit on the outside air temperature so in the NT and north QLD I set it on 4 or 5.
Hope this helps
Regards
Graham

Hi
I set my cf-80 to -12 to -15 depending on ambient temperatures and power Battery versus 240v I use the freezer to keep meat frozen and works well But have noticed that most of the time if you want a well chilled drink out of the fridge compartment then I need to completely remove the top divider reducing the size of the freezer but keeping fridge section cold

I have toyed with the idea of drilling holes in the top divider to see if this helps a more even distribution of temperature while still using the full freezer section.

I have found my cf-80 to be extremely good and a little experimentation with the dividers will see you with no problems at all the temp setting does also vary as frozen goods are removed ie as meat is used up then the setting needs to be lowered as drinks then start to freeze with very little frozen food in the freezer I set at about -10

Cheers
Steve

Hi tie,
I have a waeco 80 with the digital readout and when we head off we use it as a fridge freezer as well. I set it to -10 and i find the meat stayes frozen and the drinks are nice and cold. In the heat of summer you may want to crank it up a little more. I start the fridge a few days before we are heading off so it is working just right by the time we load it

cheers
patrolman

Hi

I generally run it flat out (-20) while on mains before geading out and while the car is running, then wind it back to -15 when stopped. we get a couple of daus out of 1 battery this way. we also defrost any thing over a day or so in the so called dairy compartment -- this helps the fridge end keep cool.

Cheers Andrew

I don't own a Waeco but will be looking at a new fridge around Xmas time hopefully. Some of the replies about changing the thermostat setting when it gets hot outside concern me though. With my present fridge (Reefer) I neverhave to alter the setting regardless of ambient outside temps, if i set it a 3C it cools to that regardless,which IMO is how a thermostatically controlled fridge should work. Is there a problem with the insulation in newer fridges?