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Subject Topic: EHU on Irish Ferries
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PersonKelper
03/8/2017 at 9:29pm
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Can't say we have ever taken fridge requiring food to France.

Always stocked up when we are there.

Nowadays we store the caravan in France, so have solved any such problems completely, as well as saving on caravan ferry costs.


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Personmcclean
04/8/2017 at 8:26am
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Quote: Originally posted by Big Roy on 03/8/2017
Quote: Originally posted by Jimff5 on 03/8/2017
There are hookups for trucks, so they can be used for caravan


You wouldn't want to connect up to them, they are a 440v supply for fridge trailers


This hadn't even crossed my mind, thanks for bringing that up. Ill have a look when I get there, cheers.


Personmcclean
04/8/2017 at 8:30am
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Quote: Originally posted by Kelper on 03/8/2017
Can't say we have ever taken fridge requiring food to France.

Always stocked up when we are there.

Nowadays we store the caravan in France, so have solved any such problems completely, as well as saving on caravan ferry costs.


We've a 4 hours drive to Rosscoff, then the ferry, then another 4-5 hour drive to our overnight. With a one year old with us we thought it would be handy for keeping milk and food chilled. See how it goes anyway. No big loss if it doesn't work out.


PersonBig Roy
04/8/2017 at 9:14am
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Quote: Originally posted by mcclean on 04/8/2017
Quote: Originally posted by Big Roy on 03/8/2017
Quote: Originally posted by Jimff5 on 03/8/2017
There are hookups for trucks, so they can be used for caravan


You wouldn't want to connect up to them, they are a 440v supply for fridge trailers


This hadn't even crossed my mind, thanks for bringing that up. Ill have a look when I get there, cheers.


You couldn't connect to them anyway, they're a bigger socket with four pins


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PersonKelper
04/8/2017 at 4:46pm
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You'd be surprised how long a decent coolbox or cool bag, if loaded with plastic bottles of frozen water, wrapped in a cloth/towel ... will last ... have been known to do 48 hours ...


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PersonOpensauce
04/8/2017 at 7:27pm
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Is the op aware that a 3way caravan fridge can only be run on 12v while towing with car engine running? Or does the op have a compressor fridge installed? If he does then that will run on 12v for a couple of days so will last the crossing.


Personmcclean
07/8/2017 at 8:36am
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Quote: Originally posted by Kelper on 04/8/2017
You'd be surprised how long a decent coolbox or cool bag, if loaded with plastic bottles of frozen water, wrapped in a cloth/towel ... will last ... have been known to do 48 hours ...


Yeah I think I'll try this.

Quote: Originally posted by Opensauce on 04/8/2017
Is the op aware that a 3way caravan fridge can only be run on 12v while towing with car engine running? Or does the op have a compressor fridge installed? If he does then that will run on 12v for a couple of days so will last the crossing.


I have a 3 way but the 12v will run off the caravan battery for about a day or so.


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PersonLlaniDavis
07/8/2017 at 11:55am
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Quote: Originally posted by mcclean on 07/8/2017

I have a 3 way but the 12v will run off the caravan battery for about a day or so.



Sorry, but that is very unlikely, unless you have a very large domestic battery bank.


PersonOpensauce
07/8/2017 at 6:07pm
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The op is mistaken. A caravan 3way fridge is not wired to run from caravan battery. It is powered from from car battery only while engine is running. It requires full battery power to operate on 12v. If it was simply connected to caravan battery the fridge would cease to operate in less than an hour.


Personsaxo1
07/8/2017 at 7:40pm
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If a 110Ah battery were fully charged it should run a fridge for a lot longer than 1 hour ,even if the door was left open it should run for at least 4 hours before it reduced the battery to 50% of charge and considerably more if the door is kept closed.
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