fridge on 12v

[Paul_374308620]

I am sailing from Rosyth to Zeebrugge with my caravan I think about 22 hours. How long will the fridge run on 12 volts.

 

[ValA.]

Don't have a technical answer to this, but if you freeze small drinks cartons, and larger litre cartons of orange, and then load your fridge, packing any spaces with the frozen cartons, you'll find everything stays nice and cold and you have lots of lovely cold orange juice for the journey on the other side.

The food on the continent is so much better than here, that we find it's not really worth packing much food nowadays.

 

[Cockovan]

Hi Paul,

The technical answer is your fridge will not run on 12v unless the car engine is running, unless it has been wired incorrectly, then you will have both a flat van battery and a flat car battery after 22hr. If it is well chilled before you set sail and has frozen items in the fridge as suggested it should be ok on arrival.

 

[Paul_374308620]

Hi Paul,

The technical answer is your fridge will not run on 12v unless the car engine is running, unless it has been wired incorrectly, then you will have both a flat van battery and a flat car battery after 22hr. If it is well chilled before you set sail and has frozen items in the fridge as suggested it should be ok on arrival.

Thanks to both of you. It is a new caravan so it will be wired correctly.I will follow your advice.

 

[Cockovan]

Hi Paul,

The technical answer is your fridge will not run on 12v unless the car engine is running, unless it has been wired incorrectly, then you will have both a flat van battery and a flat car battery after 22hr. If it is well chilled before you set sail and has frozen items in the fridge as suggested it should be ok on arrival.

Paul, it's not the van's wiring in question but the car's, unless you have the correct relay in the fridge circuit it will be live all the time and can flatten a battery in just a few hours.