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Offline matthecat

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CF60 (Kings) fridge issue
« on: December 12, 2022, 06:17:18 PM »
Hi all,
Have had 2 Kings 60l fridges (Waeco CF60 rebadged) for nearly 8 years now and they have been great.
1 is used on a daily basis and the other only comes out when we go camping, which is never enough!
The "part-time" fridge was hauled out of the shed to prepare for Christmas (always need extra drink storage) and it has developed a strange issue - it works perfectly hooked up to a 12v battery but flashes an error light then shuts down if plugged in to 240v.
Has anyone come across this before?
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Re: CF60 (Kings) fridge issue
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2022, 07:40:52 AM »
Had the same issue with my weaco cf80B, the second generation of 80L
From memory it was a $500 weaco controller card. I just kept running it on 12v. The danfoss compressor and control gear are bulletproof, but the fancy weaco gear strapped onto it is ordinary and always fails.
It was 4.5 years old at the time, ran for another 6 years on 12 volt only.
Finally that died before I knew much about fridges and I sold it to a repair guy for $150


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Re: CF60 (Kings) fridge issue
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2022, 08:00:31 AM »
From the above post, why not try a 240v/12v transformer?

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Re: CF60 (Kings) fridge issue
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2022, 08:28:48 AM »

Any of these would do, you want a 6-10amp output as a minimum


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Re: CF60 (Kings) fridge issue
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2022, 09:22:46 AM »
Thanks for the suggestions.
I'll go the step down transformer - if it works a lot easier than dragging around a battery and charger.
If it doesn't, it'll be yet another "might come in handy one day" piece of junk in the shed  ;D

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Re: CF60 (Kings) fridge issue
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2022, 09:26:49 AM »
Thanks for the suggestions.
I'll go the step down transformer - if it works a lot easier than dragging around a battery and charger.
If it doesn't, it'll be yet another "might come in handy one day" piece of junk in the shed  ;D

A step down transformer will give you an AC output. You want a AC-DC power supply...
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Re: CF60 (Kings) fridge issue
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2022, 11:40:19 AM »
A step down transformer will give you an AC output. You want a AC-DC power supply...

Duly noted - bad choice of words by me.