What fridges do people run in their expedition vehicles?

Just starting to look at them now, although, the recommend good ones seem to be £1000 upwards

If that's what it is going to cost then so be it, but, thought i'd ask here first

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What fridges do people run in their expedition vehicles?

Just starting to look at them now, although, the recommend good ones seem to be £1000 upwards

If that's what it is going to cost then so be it, but, thought i'd ask here first

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Really depends on how rough your going to be.
If your generally sticking to tarmac roads, and some gravel, then it's easy.

I fitted a 2000 watt inverter.
I bought a table top fridge fro about £70 and a table top freezer for about £80.
The ones that are about 500mm x 500mm x 500mm.
They look almost identical.
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I bought a couple of cheap battery digital thermometers off Ebay, for about £3.00 each, and put the sensor end inside, with the display just "double sided" tape to the top of each one.
I could know the temperature, without opening the door.
The display was about 20mm x 40mm and the sensor lead was about 450mm long.

They have been to Morocco, and also done another trip all around EU, France, Spain, Austria, Italy,

No problems.

They did get shook around, on some of the southern Italian roads, but always kept the meat, sausages and burgers frozen in the freezer, and kept the beer and the yogurt nicely cooled in the fridge.

At night when we knew the fridge or freezer wasn't going to be opened again, we just switched off the inverter, until next morning.

Gra.

It all depends on what you want from your fridge.

Many different ones out there. Working a mains fridge via an inverter is a high current draw system.

Good 12v fridges includes the ARB 47 litre fridge which has built in battery monitor etc and has an average current draw of 0.8 amps/hour

The Engel MT45 is a good fridge but only 40 litres and does not have a built in battery monitor.

Both are similar price around the £750 mark.

We have used them both extensively in our vehicles and prefer the ARB fridge over the Engel. Depending on size of battery, outside temp, how often you open the fridge they will work for 2-3 days on a reasonable battery



Brendan

I run a supakool aussie fridge it was cheaper than the engel and outperforms it in tests , had it about 10years now (had an engel before) I believe they are made by Evakool , dont know if the sell in UK , they do in USA HTSH