Chescold fridges

Hi Kirk and Jeanette,
Keep it level, out of the sun, clean were the flame is regularly with metho and a tooth brush.
We have the same size model and it's about the old grey coloured one, and it works a treat.
IMO they're a really good unit.

G'day guy's, mine's a 1994 grey one (same as your one) & works really well!! aussiedingo

On a recent camping trip we kept it in the open annex to the tent, the wind kept blowing the flame out and up went the temperature. Drove me nuts either not on or freezing things.

So I went out and bought an Evakool compressor fridge, I however already own solar panels and generator.

I think my criticism is it's only down point, just keep it out of the open and a lot more less fuss than trying to keep batteries charged. The gas bottle over 4 days and nights lost bugger all.

They do stuggle in hot weather, below about 28 - 30 degree's our's work a treat.

Cheers Scoof . :-)

I've been doing a bit of research on them and asking some questions. It seems the general consensus is that they're great as a gas fridge/freezer if you can keep them level, out of the sun, as others have said, and if you're careful with the pilot light. They run for weeks on 9kgs of gas.

It seems that they're not so great as car fridge/freezers. They draw a lot of current apparently, so a 2nd battery is a must, and even then you have to be careful that you don't run it flat continually.

So my conclusion is that if you do a fair bit of long term camping, that is, you like to stay in the one spot for at least a week at a time, they're a good option to run from gas at your camp site. If you prefer your touring where you only stop a night or two at each spot you're probably better off with a engel/waeco type car fridge/freezer instead where it will obviously stay in the car and your 2nd battery will get charged regularly.

Hope that helps.

matt

I used to own an RC1180 with a textured plastic blue case. It always struggled in the queensland temperatures so moved to an Evacool.

I do have a friend with a later smooth plastic blue case and his seems fine. Perhaps the later model is better.

Thanks for all the great replies. This is the rough finish blue plastic one. We are in Mackay at the moment and have it turned down to almost nothing. Ambient is about 25 to 30 and it will freeze up and blow the beers up if any higher. We are running on shore power at the moment. It is practically new and we are looking at a deal of 300 bucks plus my old 39 litre green metal engel. Think I will go with it. Cheers

Had ours since new in 1992. Only run it on gas or 240 (no connection in vehicle and we manage without). Has been excellent. Have needed to regas it a couple of times. One tip is, when it has been running on 240, if you need to move it, turn it off and let it cool for 10 minutes or so, before moving it.