Help Fridge Question

[andy & di]

Ok guys and gals here's a tricky one for ya.

I run a 60lt engel fridge in my truck, have been running it now for about 3 years, no problems until now.

turn fridge on while pluged in to 12v and light comes on but the compressor or motor on fridge does not kick in.

Plug fridge in to 240v power and works fine.

I have checked batterys, start battery is at 13.8v and aux battery is 11.5, I am running a redarc battery isolator switch and all seems to be working fine.

I have check the volts at the fridge plug and I get 13.13v and on starting of truck I get 15.4v. yet fridge still wont start.

Anyone have any suggestions????

[RoldIT]

Double and triple check all connections from fridge outlet back to the battery (including the fridge 12v lead itself).

I've had this happen before and it was the plug not plugged in properly giving it high resistance under load. Voltage showed fine but the fridge wasn't getting enough amps to kick the compressor in.

I'm guessing you have a high resistance connection somewhere.

[-Scott-]

Double and triple check all connections from fridge outlet back to the battery (including the fridge 12v lead itself).

I've had this happen before and it was the plug not plugged in properly giving it high resistance under load. Voltage showed fine but the fridge wasn't getting enough amps to kick the compressor in.

I'm guessing you have a high resistance connection somewhere.

Wot he sed!

[drivesafe]

Hi Andy, this is probably not much help but I’ve seen a few similar posts relating to Waeco fridges on other sites in the last month or so and some of them got results by contacting Waeco, so try giving Engel a call.

Cheers

[shortie]

Have your battery load tested. Voltage can still read good until load is put on it.

[andy & di]

Thanks for all the feedback, but so far nothing I have tried is working.

Fridge works fine on 240v but only the light comes on and you can hear the solenoid click when you plug in the 12v.

Gunna send it in for a service I think.

[RoldIT]

Thanks for all the feedback, but so far nothing I have tried is working.

Fridge works fine on 240v but only the light comes on and you can hear the solenoid click when you plug in the 12v.

Gunna send it in for a service I think.

Before you do. Bypass the whole system and use some jumper leads to touch to the contacts on the ciggy plug, see if it kicks in.

[andy & di]

can do that, we off loaded the ciggy plug and have it conected with anderson plugs, We have checked everything, I think it in the fridge.

Andy

[mr_incredible]

ok put the fridge in for testing the other day and apparently the 12v power pack built into the fridge is gone. $420.00 later.