Fridge Volt Regulator Wiring

Thanks Les,
appreciate your lead but not what I am looking for.

I still can't work out how to use the search function properly, usually end up with a list of pages at the bottom of the screen and start looking through them.

Thanks again and happy travels.

Peter G

Thanks Ian & Cheryl,

followed up your leads but unfortunately not what I am looking for. I'm still trying to sort out the search function properly - seems like I'm in a seniors paddock!

Thanks again and happy travelling.

Regards,
Peter G

Your not the only one Peter. I can never make it work. I find it bloody useless.

I guess somewhere on the site there is instructions to make it work, but I wonder why would "they" have made it so complicated.

Cheers,

Willie.

Try using the "Site Search" facility located at the top of the page.
The "Both" button enables a search on both the active posts and the archived posts but only within the forum that you have open.
The "Site Search" will search the entire site for the word you have put in.
It is the little grey panel above the Sponsors and Members tabs.

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Hi Peter & Rosalie,

I am not an expert.

I haven't done it for a long time, however go to MY HOME, MY RIG IN there you can upload a photo ( I think it has to be around 250 to 500 kbytes) This can be done in a photo editor by reducing the size to about 20-25% (what I use!).
Update button at the bottom should see your pick as your avtar.

If one of our experts could document this properly (with photos etc) it would be appreciated (Mick ?? is this up you expertise line?).

good luck Peter
cheers
Noel

Hi Peter,
Regards to the search.
Go to the General Forum
At the search section: Click on BOTH to cover all posts.
In the post ID enter 9154 from Les N Sally's post
hit the search button and it should bring up post 9154 which I think is what you are looking for. Good Luck

cheers
Noel

Thanks again Noel,

I have added a second photo into MY HOME, MY RIG and will now try and add it to this post, Some sites auto add a chosen Avatar/pic; any way let's see what happens.

Cheers,
Peter G
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Peter,

The Waeco fridges can be operated either on 12 volt or 24 volts supplies. The light inside the fridge can only be a 12 volt supply so there is a small device inside a short open topped aluminium square tube at the rear of the fridge that reduces 24 volt to 12 volt for the light only.

If you want to run your fridge from a 240 volt supply then you require a transformer that they sell separately and in the past a number of people have had problems with them.
With this transformer in place the 240 volt is reduced to 27 volts and the fridge is designed to run from the highest voltage available, so in both a 12 volt and 24 volt system, it sees the 27 volts as being higher and automatically uses the 27 volt supply that is coming from the 240 volt external supply.

If you don't have the Transformer fitted, then when you connect to 240 volts in a van park it will have no affect on how the fridge runs.

Brian

Peter,
I would suggest that you fill the tubing where the regulator wires enter the block with silicon so that when you are on rough roads the bouncing wires will not cause a fatigue break at the point of entering the block. By not having a solid fixed point at the end of the wire it is unlikely to fatigue breakage.

Brian

Thanks Brian,

I have sorted that one and shouldn't be an issue - no problems during our travels across the about 1200Km's of Great Central road then old Ghan line road, Chambers Pillar roads etc etc. I no longer have that aluminium housing and regulator screwed to the metal base of the fridge, it is taped to the main 12V supply wire to fridge and moves around with the bumps and sways of travel - no flexing of those points to the voltage regulator.

Just wondering if an internal fridge fan could be powered from the thermostat wiring inside the fridge; my thoughts are that it probably could and that the fan would then come on when the compressor receives it message to start - however I haven't tried/experimented yet!

Thanks,
Peter G