Westy wrote:Hi Daz, I've had a look at your build a couple of times and like what you are doing. Seems like you are approaching it with a bit of thought.
One area that causes me a bit of concern is your fridge box, or more specifically, the location of your fridge.
I have a couple of Engels, including a 30 year old, 19 litre model, that I have carted around Australia on numerous occasions. They have performed well with the exception of badly corrugated roads, where the continual vibration has caused me some problems. On one trip along the Gibb River Road with the Engel on the back of my ute and bad corrugating to contend with, the fridge just refused to work during the travel periods. I was reduced to using it as a freezer at night, freezing water to use the fridge as an esky next day as it would not work properly with the vibration.
I think that your fridge box location may cause similar problems. Not an issue if you are travelling on bitumen roads but heading "offroad' (other than a rest stop bay) might be a problem.
I have a BT50 freestyle cab and the fridges(a 40 litre Engel and the trusty 19 litre) sit on the back seat shelf. Never had a problem since locating them there.
Perhaps something for you to look at.
Cheers
Westy
Hey Westy,
I've had this fridge for quite a number of years and never had an issue so I'm hoping that continues in its new location (I've never really looked after it either). My only concern is heat build-up in the box, so probably need ventilation.
Question re: your problem, did the fridge have possible electrical connection issues when in the ute tray? I know that Ronny Dahl is now running an Engel exposed in his ute tray with no issues and frankly, I've never heard a bad thing about Engels so I'd be looking for a bad electrical connection someplace (although you've probably already done that)
by Daz7 » Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:19 pm 
