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I bought an expensive, portable Engel compressor fridge.
I paid £500 for it plus £35 to send it to Portugal.
It was meant to draw 1.5 to 3.5 amps when running. The whole point of the thing was the ad that said you can run it without worrying about flat batteries.
It arrived, worked sort of but my Hymer gauge, (roughly accurate with all other appliances) showed a draw of just over 10 amps when I plugged the fridge in.
(When I plug in my tiny laptop it shows 5-7 amps using the same gauge. The LEDs draw 1 amp.)
Also the compressor cooling fan ran all the time even when the compressor wasn't working.
I was told by email this fan running was not right, and it should not draw so much current.
I returned the unit to the UK. It cost €68 to do so.
They have now tested it and say it is running to spec. Nothing wrong with it, only drawing 1.5 - 3 amps and the fan IS meant to run all the time.
Very saddened by this waste of time and money.
Now own a fridge which is in Southampton and doesn't perform as I thought it would.
It draws 10 amps from my Hymer but 1.5 - 3.5 amps in their workshop.
What should I do?
JJ :Cool:
Could they be measuring amps @ 240 a/c?
I paid £500 for it plus £35 to send it to Portugal.
It was meant to draw 1.5 to 3.5 amps when running. The whole point of the thing was the ad that said you can run it without worrying about flat batteries.
It arrived, worked sort of but my Hymer gauge, (roughly accurate with all other appliances) showed a draw of just over 10 amps when I plugged the fridge in.
(When I plug in my tiny laptop it shows 5-7 amps using the same gauge. The LEDs draw 1 amp.)
Also the compressor cooling fan ran all the time even when the compressor wasn't working.
I was told by email this fan running was not right, and it should not draw so much current.
I returned the unit to the UK. It cost €68 to do so.
They have now tested it and say it is running to spec. Nothing wrong with it, only drawing 1.5 - 3 amps and the fan IS meant to run all the time.
Very saddened by this waste of time and money.
Now own a fridge which is in Southampton and doesn't perform as I thought it would.
It draws 10 amps from my Hymer but 1.5 - 3.5 amps in their workshop.
What should I do?
JJ :Cool:
Could they be measuring amps @ 240 a/c?
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