Fridge voltage drop

Patrick,

I second Rob's idea. I have done exactly as he describes and my Waeco cools down and stays down much better. I don't think any brand fridge lead is made well enough!

Patrick,
The 6mm wire will work fine with the 50amp anderson plug. That's what I used and it works very well. Make sure you crimp it well. I reckon the problem with the waeco lead is the way the fuse assembly is withing the cigarette plug.

Beleive me, do what I did and you will be right.

The symptoms mine had was that when the vehicle is not running and you pressed the turbo funtion it would give an error light. With the vehicle running it would eventually also give the error light. Everything else worked ok. But since making the new leadI can press the turbo function, even after 2 days with the vehicle not running and it works the way it should.

Withe the original plug when it fails pull the lead out and feel the end of it (+ve pole) it will be very hot. Now with anderson plugs they are cold.

ROb

Greybeard,
Mine had the stronger internal thermal fuse installed and still had the dreaded error light. Ended up being the lead.

Rob

hmmm, which end of the lead has the problem?
i've replaced the cigarette plug with a 2 pin low voltage plug ( like the 3 pin mains ones but only two pins ) and i still seem to have the problem. more so when it is hot.
i've got to take mine back and get the thermal fuse looked at.

I cut my lead at the end that goes into the fridge leaving about 1inch of cable. Then soldered 6mm dual cable, about 1m, to it with an anderson pug at the end where the cigarette plug normally goes. I also put an inline fuse holder with a 7.5a fuse. Covered it with flexible conduit and it looks like a bought one!

I think the standard thermal fuse is 5amp and when I took mine to the waeco rep he put in a 9amp thermal fuse as they can draw up to about 8amps when first fired up.

With the homemade lead it works as though it's plugged into 240v.