Theolegit wrote:Wow sounds interesting have you any pics of it installed?
you want to see pics of a bay window bus?
(in the end i actually had to turn the compressor 90° to the right so i could connect the pipes.)
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Theolegit wrote:Wow sounds interesting have you any pics of it installed?
oorwullie wrote:ninja.turtle007 wrote:
I checked for drains and amps drawn by the fridge. Less than 0.1a drain on the whole setup and the fridge pulls 3.5A when running. I checked the specs and at an ambient temp of 25C, it should draw an average of 1.4 amps per hour. With the 2x 100A/H batteries I would expect 72 hours without discharging below a safe level.
i assume you do understand that the compressor doesn't run constantly but only for about a total of 6 minutes in an hour? i roughly calculate that with all those amps you have on board the fridge should run for a month before the voltage drops to cutoff level!
v-lux wrote:Tom, its highly possible they might have been duff when you bought them.
If batteries have been laying around for a long time on a shelf somewhere not being charged then they will most likely be dead.
You could well have fallen foul of this without realising, quite naturally when you purchase a new battery you expect it to be good.
I knew something was up with your system. It was a good home brew test you did there by the way, basically a controlled load test. Very nice thinking.
If it helps at all, I cant praise enough the Bosch starter battery I bought a few months back (silver edition or something like that) it's very high quality. And was relatively cheap from euro car parts.
In order to keep everything matching the rest of my cabinets, I removed the interior plastic trays, backing, seal and hinges from my old fridge door then cut up the door to make my new cabinet parts