Faulty Waeco

Submitted: Thursday, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:25
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Hi

After approx 4 years of no problems my Waeco CF 50 fridge started playing up on our Xmas trip. The symptoms are:-

1. The fridge works fine when the vehicle motor is going and the auxillary battery is producing plenty of current. However after the vehicle has been stopped a few hours and the voltage at the socket has dropped to 12.1 volts the fridge won't operate. It seems to be trying to start then it cuts out. I have always had the cut out switch set to "low" and in the past have operated where necessary on lower voltages than 12v.

2. I also noticed that the light in the fridge comes on if the the lid is raised even if the fridge is turned off, providing the plug is in the socket. I cannot remember if this is normal as i don't usually have the fridge switched off when in the vehicle.

3. Also the light in the fridge seems really hot. I can hardly touch it. Just to get home on our trip I jammed the light switch to off so I didn't do any damage.

As we were in southern qld for 3 weeks and travelled back north we encountered heaps of rain on our trip and I don't know if it was a co-incidence but I had to re-set the vehicle clock and re-install the security number on the Radio / CD on the trip for no apparent reason.

There would not appear to be any problem with voltage reduction at the socket.

Has anybody any ideas ?
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