Thread: Techni Ice Fridge

The fan not cycling with the compresser is not ideal.Give them a call about it and see what they say.

An easy wiring mod may fix the issue,although i realise it is under warranty.

Another problem,apart from the power draw,is the fan will tend to clog up whatever it is cooling,and itself, with dirt,fluff, and dust if it runs all the time.

An early update
I turned in on last night in the shed on 240 volts to cool the cabinet.

I put it in the car for the first time this morning as I am heading off on holidays tomorrow

I then loaded the the large side with meat from our deep freeze, which is around minus 18.

I then filled the smaller side with un refrigerated beer and soft drink.

This took place at about 11 am. I had the fridge plugged into the mains for most of the day as it did not like 12 volts which I will explain later.

The top temp today at my place was 32.6 at 5.30 pm, but for most of the day it was around 30, not overly hot.

Now for most part of the day the freezer temp was minus ten, even though it was filled with minus 18 food and the fridge did not want to come below minus ten either.

All this time I was running the compressor at fast speed which I thought was supposed to boost cooling.

I did check the current draw and it was 3.5 amps, one more than my engle, but running at fast speed I expected this.
I actually expected more so was happy here, but was also expecting more in the cooling department, so very unhappy there.

Now for the 12 volt side. I think there is a fault in the electronics. It offers three option for low voltage shut off. I chose 11.8 volts.
I have a brand new aux battery, purchased 3 days ago, fitted it this morning.

The fridge kept shutting down due to low voltage, even though it had 12.6 to 12.7 volts engine off. The fridge would run with engine running and voltage in the high 13's but would display a low 12's value.

I have overcome this short term by changing the cutoff to the 10 volt setting, but my confidence in this is to the point that I have repacked the car to include my Honda generator, a device I purely own for power black outs, as I despise the things for camping purposes.

So to sum up. It is early days yet as I have not yet left mains supply, but I am really starting to wish that I had purchased a second Engle.

Price wasn't the deal breaker on this, it was only $300 cheaper than Engle, I really thought this was a great product and it may prove me wrong, but I am having huge doubts.

I will report latter after my holiday.

PS. I just went and checked the temps. Now minus 14 and plus five, at 11 pm with an ambient of 25 degrees.
Now considering that the food placed in the freezer 12 hours ago was minus 18 does not give me a lot of confidence.

Had today being a high 30's temp I wonder???