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Post Info TOPIC: Confused why my Dometic car fridge not working well!!


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Confused why my Dometic car fridge not working well!!


I am frustrated to the bloody max with this stupid solar / car fridge bullcrap

 

My spare battery in back of my Kia Carnival (2006) is not lithium. Just a big old battery in a black box

But it was running my car fridge which is only 1 yr old. Dometic CFX

 

then one day it all changed.

 

I have a Victor MPPT controller. Anderson plugs and all that. 

right now the dometic app says my battery is 12.9v

but my fridge is 16c when it is set to be -1c.

at night or if i park under a tree fridge goes from 16 to 20 something.

It used to work really good. Nice cold drinks. 

If the battery is 12.9 does that mean battery is good? If so, why does temp go up at night so much and battery falls to 10v



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Measure the voltage AT the fridge.
Cheers,
Peter

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Not necessarily your battery but very possible.

When last talking to a technician about my CFX55 he said that it draws about 15A on startup.  I haven't tested whether that is the case but what could possible be happening is your battery may be dropping in voltage as the motor starts each cycle and it may not be starting.  Or even running for a while and then cutting out. What colour are the lights on the fridge?

If you have a multi meter a good way to test your battery is to run something like a compressor and measure the battery terminal voltage and watch how it drops.

To test the fridge, you will have a cigarette plug lead so plug it in in a  vehicle cigarette socket for a while and you should see the temperature drop after a while.  If it doesn't you probably have a warranty issue.

 



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