Working in the yard Saturday and helped one of our older gents switch wagons , long story short as the cab hes switching too has a built in one he gave me his (awesome, sunday and monday night where great) plugged her back in this morning 12v plug into hella? Socket adaptor and got a brief whir from the fan then nothing. The socket still works and the plyg seems fine as the led indicator still lights up but nothing from the fridge. Any ideas folks? Is it a reasonable repair or utterly gone? hopefully ill bump into him this week just in case its still under warranty
Yes, those good old compass point prodders with an inbuilt light are worth their weight in gold for tracing a break in connection, if you’re like me you end up stabbing yourself more times than you put it through the insulation but such is life
Took me till the third to get mine working. First 2 died within hours.
Cant fault Halfords as just replaced with out even a receipt. The first one was brought in sussex and replaced in newmarket so they must be used to them blowing up. Current one has lasted over 2 years!
wheelnutt:
You sure you used the 12V socket and not the 24V one and fried it?
I used the 24v socket with an adaptor out of maplins, pretty sure the gent before me had the same setup. If its a fault in the cable and ideas where I buy one of the compass point checker things
Not trying to be Captain Obvious but did you test it outside or in a cold cab that hadn’t warmed up/with doors open? Its fridge temperature outdoors at the moment so I’m just wondering if it turned itself off because it had got cold enough that it was at its set temperature.
Hmm, first thing this morning cab was a bit chilly, certainly not now tho and just plugged it in with no response, tried both the 24 and 12 sockets with no difference. Thinking I may have needed an adaptor that also dropped the voltage. Surprised no ones took one apart before.
Check the obvious inline fuse in the plug first. Somewhere it will tell you if it’s a 12 / 24 V set up.
My normal 12v cool box packed up and it was a win in the lid, a quick repair and a new plug and we’re off. Also I’ve said before check the fans and drop a bit of grease on the spindles.
AndrewG:
Check you actually have power down the lead to the fridge before condemning it, could well be a broken wire under the insulation.
Check the plug wiring as one wire could have broke from the connector. It will still light up as though all is ok but obviously not able to send power down the line.
Ill meet up with him at the enf of the week, if hes not still got receipt or anything ill take it apart at weekend. Thanks for the help all, on a related note anyone know wheres best to get a good hella socket adaptor that drops down to 12volt?
Edit, just dismantled both plugs, the hella to normal cig socket has no fuse, the normal one on the end of the fuse does and all connections are fine. Pretty sure I killed it. Doh
Stehinch:
Edit, just dismantled both plugs, the hella to normal cig socket has no fuse, the normal one on the end of the fuse does and all connections are fine. Pretty sure I killed it. Doh
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As I said before, sounds to me you plugged it into a 24V socket without a dropper. You fried it.
Stehinch:
Edit, just dismantled both plugs, the hella to normal cig socket has no fuse, the normal one on the end of the fuse does and all connections are fine. Pretty sure I killed it. Doh
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As I said before, sounds to me you plugged it into a 24V socket without a dropper. You fried it.
Yup, fingers crossed I can replace or fix. Still usefull for storage tho as keeps things a bit more organised. Hmm, xmas from bank of mum n dad maybe!!! Could do with a little help on a dropper adaptor tho. And thanks
