This could be a very stupid question but what do you think about running the fridge on gas while travelling? I'm going away for the first time tomorrow and from what I've read on here the 12v system isn't very effective.
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if you run with your gas fridge on ,make sure you turn it off before entering a refueling station ie petrol derv or like wise or it may be the last thing you remember,Regards Alf.This could be a very stupid question but what do you think about running the fridge on gas while travelling? I'm going away for the first time tomorrow and from what I've read on here the 12v system isn't very effective.
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I was expecting people to be horrified at the idea!
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If your fridge is Auto Sensing then there should be a delay (I thinks its 20mins on ours) before the Fridge switches to Gas and the ignition lights it.I've never thought about the fridge when getting fuel. I guess when I switch the engine off the fridge automatically goes back to gas. I know I've never turned it off.
12v fine on our fridge too. If you're worried about the fridge being cold freeze a bottle of water and put that in, then use it when it's defrosted. I wouldn't travel with the fridge on gas.
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Think you may find that even if you could try to run it on gas while driving the flame would more than lightly blow out with the draught while in motion.
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The fridges 12v supply is for maintaining a pre chilled temperature, it wont chill to a suitable degree from scratch.
Either stick in some frozen food or a couple of proper, pre frozen, ice packs and that will help bring the temp down on 12v while travelling.
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The variation is caused by the distance of the frig from the engine and the thickness of wire used. Most vans are (were?) built with very economical wire sizes.The effectiveness of fridges on 12v seems highly variable.
The one in my previous van was only really good for keeping a pre-chilled fridge cold. It took a very long drive indeed to cool the fridge down from ambient temperature on 12v alone.
The one in the current van seems to work as well on 12v as it does on gas. I haven't done any comparative timings, but it seems to cool at about the same rate on either power source.
Neither are AES fridges.
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The variation is caused by the distance of the frig from the engine and the thickness of wire used. Most vans are (were?) built with very economical wire sizes.
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My RMD8505 has 170watt 12 volt element and 190watt 230 volt. Despite the wattage difference I believe the heat outputs are equal and not related to power consumption.The fridges 12v supply is for maintaining a pre chilled temperature, it wont chill to a suitable degree from scratch.
Either stick in some frozen food or a couple of proper, pre frozen, ice packs and that will help bring the temp down on 12v while travelling.
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