Kings 60lt big dissapointment

[wick p]

Bought a new Evercool 10 years ago and had to return it 3 times to dealers who said there is nothing wrong. Still continued to fail till I had a look for myself and found an inadequate fuse holder which was getting hot. Replaced with a decent one and no trouble. The high resistance at the fuse holder was preventing enough current to operate motor and it was trying to cycle and giving a fault light. Has been an excellent fridge since. Any heat in supply circuit may stop fridge from operating efficiently.

 

[lazypat]

Sometimes its better to pay a bit more for a tried and trusted brand.
Kings turn over 380 million dollars a year that's a lot of land fill.
I've had most fridges over the years and always end up back with an Engel.
There are better fridges out there but value for money they are hard to match.
I also run a bushman upright 85 liter in my Ute back and love it. They seem the rage at the moment.

GT :money:

The ones annaconda sell seem to work ok and not overly expensive on sale

 

[Hippyty79]

Bought a new Evercool 10 years ago and had to return it 3 times to dealers who said there is nothing wrong. Still continued to fail till I had a look for myself and found an inadequate fuse holder which was getting hot. Replaced with a decent one and no trouble. The high resistance at the fuse holder was preventing enough current to operate motor and it was trying to cycle and giving a fault light. Has been an excellent fridge since. Any heat in supply circuit may stop fridge from operating efficiently.

I had a similar issue with my waeco where the compressor would try to kick in then stop while away last year, turned out to be the power cable wasn’t allowing enough draw for the compressor to start, I bought a heavy duty Anderson cable and has been fine since.
I did pull the waeco apart and gave it good blow out and swapped out the thermistor while I had it opened up.
I think the op may not have consider the defrost cycle, he didn’t mention the length of time his fridge was at 11c
I think what Brooksy was meaning 1.4ah drawings in her post.

 

[Davent]

I've got 2 Engels, both 40lt or there about.
Both have old school "guess the temp" controls, both work really well.
On long trips, 1 is a freezer one is a fridge.
Both are noisy. 1 is a plastic body job and the other is a pretty old beat up steel one, both work just as well.
Downsides.
Guessing game so things don't freeze.
The size of the fridge is not great. You end up digging through stuff to get what you need. 60lt would be a better size, easier to organise.
No internal lights, no temperature control, bit heavy on battery use.
Good things, always work, steep hills don't bother them, piece of mind that it will keep stuff cold no matter the conditions.

Imo, Engels are the minelabs of car fridges, over priced, but they work!