do you get water build up at the bottom of all 3 way fridges? Can you tell me what fridges you use for camping and how effective they are. We are still using cool boxes and ice blocks
We use a Waeco 3-way fridge which goes down to 40deg below ambient. Cost around £140.
It works fine - especially on gas. yes there was fluid at the bottom of it when we got home, thought that I just hadn't sealed something properly! The only problem with it is that it's big and heavy and since we mostly do touring my husband gets fed up of shifting it around all the time!
We're saving our pennies up for an Engel which will be a bit smaller and neater plus they're excellent.
We use a Waeco 3-way fridge which goes down to 40deg below ambient. Cost around £140.
Now as far as I was aware, Waeco make the CombiCool in two versions, the one that cools to 20`C below ambient and the one that they brought out last year which will go to 30`C below ambient. Do they make another one that I'm unaware of, or are you talking in `F?
I've got the 20`C below ambient version,btw, and it's good untill the outside temp starts going into the high 20s (C) and then it starts to struggle slightly. I'd like the newer version but can't justify the cost of repacement, alas.
And yes, I do get water in the base. It's caused by the fluctuation in temperature (adding unchilled food and in our case, especially beer!) plus introducing more moist air every time you open the thing. I wipe it out every couple of days to mop up the moisture.
I have been looking at fridges for a while, and have now got a Waeco CF-25 which is a compressor fridge, unlike the Waeco CAB-40 which is an absorbtion fridge, the CAB-40 I decided was to big to lug around, although it has the advantage of being able to run of Gas etc, on balance I am happy to run the CF-25 of a battery in the occational absense of EHU. As I will be camping in Southern France next year I wanted a fridge that will do the business, I know the CAB-40 will do 30deg below ambient temp, which would not leave me much margin as it realy does get silly hot in France during late July. as for the CF-25 well I have had that on test and it got to minus19dec C, which means I will have no problems at keeping stuff at 4deg C, whilst in France. and if the compressor is to noisey, I will stick it in the boot of the car to run at night!.
Sorry, my mistake - it's the CAB-40 which cools to 30 deg C below ambient. We used it in the French Alps and Geneva this summer when the temperature was over 30 deg C and it was fine (in fact there was ice forming!).
we have the Waeco 55 which to 25deg below and we have not had any problems with it .
We fill it right up including a 3ltre box of wine(inside taken out of box)
But we do ensure that ewverything going into it is really cold first . We have even had things freeze in it ie a cucumber and a banana!!!!!!. ours has a dinky little ice cube tray so we have xonstant ice cubes as well. we plug it in at home the day before we go and then our car has a 12vlt plug in the boot so we plug it in there for the journey and then EHU on site. We have used the gas bottle but I will be honest and state that we have found it works more efficiantly on hook up.
We have never had water in the bottom other than we we get home and defrost it.
I also have the Waeco CAB40 -about1 year old. I find its cooling to be quite average on gas but gret while running off the ca or in the house. I seem to remember that it was equally good on gas and electric when we bought it last year.
Anyone else found this change in perfomance when using gas?
Whether you use gas, mains or 12V the purpose is the same: to heat the ammonia liberation device. I have noticed that you can feel about the same amount of heat above the 'chimney' at the back on all three modes and using the gas on maximum seems to have the same cooling power as the other two methods.
If you have noticed a degredation in performance on gas versus electric over the past year it must mean that your gas mode is not heating as well as it did before. I suspect you may have an unwanted (probably dead by now) creepy crawlie somewhere in the gas line, maybe in the 'bunsen' which is where gas jet meets air just before the burner. Try cleaning it out with a pipe cleaner and check to make sure you have a good shape blue flame atop the burner.
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