Engel MR40 Eclipse

Can't help with the Engel but have had a Waeco CF35 now for over 2 years. No problems with it what so ever. Only regret is I should have bought the CF40 or CF50 for a bit more room.

Hello Harry.

My wife and I have one and are totally satisfied with it.

It replaced a Waeco CF50 which we sold with our last car.

Could not be happier with the Engel unit.

We run ours between "1" and "2". Usually closer to "1".

I know one thing Harry. Our engel uses less power than our CF50.

Would not hesitate to recommend one.

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True Blue

Apologies for doubling up there. Don't know what happened.

We had the CF50 Waeco for over 7 years and the only problems we had with it were ALWAYS traced back to not enough power to run it. In those days we had a pretty dodgy second battery set up. But once we figured out where we were going wrong the fridge was faultless.

Don't know about 2 fans. Heck I didn't even know it had one.

We bought the Engel during a sale at Melbourne sports/camping store Anaconda nearly 12 months ago for $719 (like I said it was on sale big time that day).

It of course was a replacement for the Waeco and was bought initially for a 3 week trip to Birdsville last July. It was powered by a 115ah AGM 'National Luna'
portable second battery set up. At one stage the vehicle was stationery for 2 /3 days in hot weather (thus no recharging for the second battery) but the built in voltage meter still showed 100% charge at the end of that period.

From my observations it is very efficient, I think it draws less than the Waeco and we just love the way it cools the insides all the way to the lid. The Waeco did not do this.

Suits us fine at present.

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True Blue.