Not loading the batteries and charger when AC is available would be nice on its own. I’ve always wondered if the fridge would kick the charger back to the absorption stage, and overcook the batteries. (OTOH, I got 7 years out of this set before the current problem, so it must not be too bad.)
Did the adler-barbour come on your boat, or did you install it yourself? Is there any capability to manually switch it to disable the 12V mode at dock?
Thanks!
Ben.
> On Jun 20, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Paul Schwab <
pschw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There is no perfect solution that will solve his issue if he is away from the boat for extended periods. If my shore power cuts out for several hour, the refer switches back to AC and the battery charger kicks in when shore power is restored. For us, the key is not working the house batteries/battery charger when sitting in a slip.
>
> On Jun 20, 2017 8:23 AM, "Mark J Wilme" <
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> BUT, if your shore power drops then you stop charging the batteries and you will draw down the bank - this doesn't solve Bens issue does it ?
>
>
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> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Paul Schwab <
pschw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have an adler-barbour compressor with an optional AC/DC control module. Runs on AC when it is available and switches to the DC house bank when it's not.
>
> In it's third season and works great
>
>
>
> On Jun 20, 2017 1:14 AM, "Ben Campbell" <
b...@nostrum.com> wrote:
> The fridge on my Bene31 is DC only. The fridge can take over 24 hours to chill down, especially when full of drinks, so we tend to leave it on. But lately we’ve had problem with shore power reliability, and more than once we’ve arrived at the marina to find our house batteries fully discharged. (Ouch)
>
> Has anyone converted a DC fridge to AC/DC, so it can run off AC when on shore power instead of loading the batteries/battery charger? That way, if we lost shore power we might find our beer has gotten warm, but at least we wouldn’t have run the batteries all the way down.
>
> Automatic switching would be nice, but I could live with manual switching. (And I half expect that the existing DC fridge might use an internal inverter…)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben.
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