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!

 

[rustyhooks]

I have been useing 12 volt fridges for almost 40 years and in that time have gone through 4 Engels all of which had compressors expire and the cost of replacement was prohibitive, next on the list was a 60l Waeco which lasted one trip in the Pilbara on our annual trip, at the time it was only 6 moths old, we think they were not suited to extended bumpy tracks and roads, that unit we retired to our oldest son and he uses it spareingly and has had no problems since , 7 years ago we bought on advice from a long time prospector friend a 100l Brass Monkey from RTM Rockingham at the time it was the shops demo and we got it for $100 off the noemal price, as we were going away in a fortnights time after my back healed from a recent procedure we thought why not at the price as we had been taking a bar fridge and uniing a 2.5kva gen set for up to 5-6 hrs per day.
the 100l Brass Monket still is in use till this day, i use it when not going away in the shed as my beer fridge and also to store some fishing bait as the Dragon has banned me useing our food freezer hehehehhe!
I like the 2 x separate boxes, one freezer down to minus 21c or the other side i useually sit at 1-2 above freezing it uses bugger all battery which i have 400 ahr of lithium and 500 watts of solar, as we are going away for longer this year as the Dragon is now free of the big C we now have bought a 80l unit (both are Stainless cases ) we have had a bunch of friends over for xmas and we had both units running off of the battery system so see how they ran both at the same time and all 12 volt useage was great 2 days with only 1 volt drop over 48 hrs, fiully charged thats 14.2 down to 13.1v .
The 100l unit we paid for almost 8 years ago $799 and the 80l unit we recently paid $899, and yeah i know this is a long winded read but i just looked at RTM Rockingham anf also Jaycar who are both sellers of these units and they have a super special of $449 down from 899 fot the 80l and $499 fot the 100l down from $999 also the compressors are manufactered by LG Any ways bye for now need another coffe from the new expresso machine.

 

[Davent]

I have been useing 12 volt fridges for almost 40 years and in that time have gone through 4 Engels all of which had compressors expire and the cost of replacement was prohibitive, next on the list was a 60l Waeco which lasted one trip in the Pilbara on our annual trip, at the time it was only 6 moths old, we think they were not suited to extended bumpy tracks and roads, that unit we retired to our oldest son and he uses it spareingly and has had no problems since , 7 years ago we bought on advice from a long time prospector friend a 100l Brass Monkey from RTM Rockingham at the time it was the shops demo and we got it for $100 off the noemal price, as we were going away in a fortnights time after my back healed from a recent procedure we thought why not at the price as we had been taking a bar fridge and uniing a 2.5kva gen set for up to 5-6 hrs per day.
the 100l Brass Monket still is in use till this day, i use it when not going away in the shed as my beer fridge and also to store some fishing bait as the Dragon has banned me useing our food freezer hehehehhe!
I like the 2 x separate boxes, one freezer down to minus 21c or the other side i useually sit at 1-2 above freezing it uses bugger all battery which i have 400 ahr of lithium and 500 watts of solar, as we are going away for longer this year as the Dragon is now free of the big C we now have bought a 80l unit (both are Stainless cases ) we have had a bunch of friends over for xmas and we had both units running off of the battery system so see how they ran both at the same time and all 12 volt useage was great 2 days with only 1 volt drop over 48 hrs, fiully charged thats 14.2 down to 13.1v .
The 100l unit we paid for almost 8 years ago $799 and the 80l unit we recently paid $899, and yeah i know this is a long winded read but i just looked at RTM Rockingham anf also Jaycar who are both sellers of these units and they have a super special of $449 down from 899 fot the 80l and $499 fot the 100l down from $999 also the compressors are manufactered by LG Any ways bye for now need another coffe from the new expresso machine.

Not the 1st time I have heard good things about the brass monkey fridges.
A mate bought one as an interim fridge about 3 or 4 years ago, and hoped it would last 1 season. So far it has not let him down.
I have had about 5 fridges.
1st one I got at k mart years ago. It a was a weaco before weaco had that brand name. I got it at cost price because there was no price tag on it, and the checkout chick scanned the barcode on the box, and that was that. It was actually a really good fridge that I gave to a neighbour.
Then I got a 60lt Coleman, polar ice I think it was called. It was really good until it wasn't!
Couldn't get replacement parts and it was out of warranty, and a new model was introduced.
Then I went Engels. So far so good....well, one was an Engel, the other an old 2nd hand ARB fridge....just a re branded Engel.

 

[Dave's Office]

Years ago a mate gave me an Engles bar fridge and an Engles bar Freezer for my shack at Cape Jervis, they were pretty old but worked fine, they were still in the shack and working perfectly when I sold the shack walk in walk out 10 years later, I guess that's why they've been around so long, they've got a great reputation for reliability.

 

[nucopia]

We bought a 100lt Brass Monkey refrigerator 3 years ago and its worked a treat from day 1 The thing I like is the phone app that allows you to monitor and adjust all the features of the ref from you phone.. We have used it on long trips out bush using 12 volt camper trailer system 2x 90 ah AGM batteries and a 250 watt solar panel and at home on 240 volts and so far its never had an issue..