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Topic: Camping Fridge 24Volt

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simon7030

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I have an Electrolux RC1600 3 way fridge which is great on gas and mains.It is the 24volt model which I bought second hand thinking it was 12 volt.I would have thought it will still work on the car 12volt socket but be half the power?Anyone any experience or have I bought the wrong thing and is this ideal for a lorry driver as lorries run off 24volt batteries?Any info would be helpful.Thanks

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This is probably a lorry one as you suggested, but I think some narrow boats use 24 volt as well. The "works" in a fridge like this is a small heater, and I doubt it will get hot enough on 12 volt. It will probably produce less than half the heat as on 24 volt and you need the evaporation created by the heat for it all to work.

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in lorries we use a dropper to power 12 v items such as the radios cb s etc if you enquire at the likes of andrew pages or any fleet factor type of place they should be able to advise on where to get an 'upper' to increase the voltage to 24v

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Great that will sort it if I can an upper as it is a very good fridge and need the 12 volts to get from Birmingham to Wales.Thanks for all replies.Simon

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12 to 24 volt DC-DC converters are available but you are likely to find them hard to obtain and very expensive.

The two element types are likely to have the same physical dimensions, so if you could get a 'spare' 12 volt element you might well be able to fit it in place of the existing 24 volt one?

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I have sold the fridge and the chap that has bought it has a device bought off Ebay that can run laptops etc.It ups a car's 12volts to 24volts.Not sure if he has tried it yet but the fridge draws 5-6amps and his device can supply this.I think long term running thes fridges on 12volts or 24volts it's beast to get a dedicated leisure battery as when I tried my other 12volt fridge the cigar lighter got very hot and melted the extension(the extension was only thin cable and not ment for the job I have since found)Towsure.com do a heavy duty cigar lighter plug extension lead which I have ordered.Thanks

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