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22/5/2017 at 9:07pm
Location: E Sussex
Outfit: pennine pathfinder
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You can buy them, towsure do one (Maypole) although only 8pins connected and does not specify which ones, but I saw one on eBay with all pins connected. Just google 13pin extension lead.
From memory, the fridge takes about 4-5 amps, so a fully charged 110Ah leisure battery will last less than a day (and that would be a deep discharge which I'm not sure is good).
I don't know what the charging current from an idling car would be. The fuse is 20amps on that circuit so at best you would have 4:1 ratio of fridge time to car idling time.
Tempted to agree with Navver, a solar panel might be better. We use a little 20W cell to keep the battery trickle charged at home, but you can get 50 or 100W cells which, if starting with a full charge, might keep you going for a while in nice weather. The hardest part will be re-wiring it as the pennine electrics do not have a connection between the leisure battery and fridge (presumably due to the impracticalities of using a leisure battery for this purpose and risk accidentally flattening your battery). The fridge is only wired into the 13pin socket directly.
For weekend trips we just use the fridge on gas, I worked out its about five pounds a day (obviously depends on ambient temperature and starting temperature of fridge) to run it on gas, but we turn it off at night as ambient is cooler then and its safer. Not much different from the cost of EHU at some sites, and fine provided you carry 2 gas bottles around.
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