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DC101

Member Since: 01 Jul 2012
Location: Pudsey, West Yorkshire
Posts: 249

Fridge error light: is my battery tired?

Hi,

Advice please.
Camping last weekend for the first time this year 😢and my old Waeco 45 coolfreeze cut out on arrival and started flashing a red warning light. It was cooling /working whilst on the road. I switched to minimum setting, still no joy, (so had to drink the beers before they warmed up😀).

Because of relatively low use, I don’t run a split charging system, but use an Odyssey PC2150 at 100 a/h. Superb at starting the Landy but has it run it’s course as a ‘deep’ cycle battery? Checking battery voltage whilst sitting with engine off, it reads a low 12.2v. When a load is put on (ie fridge), it drops to11.99v and the fridge stops.

Do I have to look at a (cheaper)replacement battery?

Any thoughts welcome. I don’t like warm beer!

Thanks

Rob

15th Jul 2019 9:33pm

landy andy

Member Since: 15 Feb 2009
Location: Ware, Herts
Posts: 5416

2006 Defender 110 Td5 USW Zermatt Silver

Sounds like your battery isn’t up to the job anymore. I had the same with a Waeco fridge, so got rid of it and bought an Engle as it didn’t have the low voltage thing to stop it working. For me I didn’t want it as I had split charge and two odyssey’s so it’s ok to go to lower voltages.

But,

I did have a big chat with odyssey about this and they told me. At least once a year each battery should be removed from the circuit, and be given a full proper charge with decent charger, with the correct setting for the battery type. I have since done this and it very much changes/resets the batteries characteristics after.

So your battery may just need some tlc

Andy.

16th Jul 2019 8:13am

DC101

Member Since: 01 Jul 2012
Location: Pudsey, West Yorkshire
Posts: 249

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the input.
Interesting about the battery. I recently completely flattened my Odyssey through an electrical fault, and recharged with a CTEK 500 battery charger. Maybe worth trying on the reconditioning cycle if I didn’t do it before.

No flexibility to change the fridge, but may have to plump for a cheaper Numax if required.

Cheers

Robin

16th Jul 2019 2:35pm

Jimb1978

Member Since: 05 Sep 2012
Location: Huddersfield
Posts: 804

2002 Defender 110 Td5 Black LE Java Black

My waeco did this. I changed the power lead and the plug it went into. They had led a hard life and often didn’t quite mate together properly. 2002 110 td5

17th Jul 2019 8:31pm

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