3 Way Fridges On Ebay Opinions?

[Squiffy]

It should not make any difference to the pressure going to the cooker burners when the fridge is working on gas, if the gas pressure reduces at the cooker when the fridge is supplied with gas and running you have a problem either with the fridge, regulator or collapsed rubber feed pipe.
The amount of pressure in the gas bottle is more than enough to run both items at full chat. It's possible that the regulator has malfunctioned and only allowing say 20% pressure through, the regulator should be rated at 30mbar, I personally have had at least three regulators go west over the years, two had failed completely and one hardly let any gas through at all, so that is a possibility.
The other possibility is that the tap on the bottle has got a problem but on thing for sure is that I have a full oven and hob, a Truma 4 heater and a three way fridge all running off the one regulator plus a barbecue fitting and I can have all four running at full bore without a problem. We'll to be fair I've never had the Bb fitting running with the other three but I'm certain it would be ok.
Frankly the amount of gas that a fridge demands is minimal it's little more than a hand held cigarette lighter flame unless it's one of those doubles fridge units and then they can just be heard to roar a little . I suppose you have tried a new bottle? Phil

 

[farang]

The pipes reg' & fridge are all new, the reg' is adjustable I can turn up the pressure & have the cooker burners at full flame & then the fridge wont keep a correct flame, it blows its sell out

 

[Squiffy]

The pipes reg' & fridge are all new, the reg' is adjustable I can turn up the pressure & have the cooker burners at full flame & then the fridge wont keep a correct flame, it blows its sell out

Hmmm, got to say I've never come across an adjustable regulator, how do you know what pressure your setting? The fact that the fridge flame goes out would suggest to me that regardless of what you are calling full flame on the hob it would seem that the pressure is too much, does the flame around the hob roses stand away from the roses or does the flame seem to eminate from the rose. I'd say adjust the regulator to the point where the fridge flame works well then turn on the hob and find the sweet spot where the fridge flame stays alight and the hob flame is exceptable. What make is this regulator I'd like to have a look at one, I really can't see why you would require an adjustable regulator so I'd love to have a look at it's specs and sales blurb, where did you buy it? Phil

P.s. If the fridge is new it would be very bad luck that there was a problem with the 12v side of the heater, did you get full instalation instructions with it and what is the model number.

 

[farang]

I can adjust the reg' to get the hob flame as required, when the flame is "normal high" its too much for the fridge. Both fridge & reg' are cheap unbranded ebay stuff. I have the instructions but not much use.

 

[Squiffy]

I put the exact same fridge into my Daughters van that I built for her, I think I put some of the build pics up on here, though I really can't remember, I'll have to check but it's been a good fridge for over a year now. I had to make an extended exhaust for it out of diesel heater exhaust as the fridge was smaller than the standard Dometic ones the dometic vents which I used had to go below and above the van side strengtheners and the extended exhaust. I got hers from Amazon think it was about £450.
What was this regulator?

 

[farang]

Ill take a pic tomorrow when its light, I paid about £270 for the fridge

 

[Squiffy]

https://motorhomebuilder.com/threads/new-van-build-again.67659/post-882999

Just found one of the posts of the Daughters van. You got a real bargain with the fridge then phil

 

[farang]

That looks good, Ive knocked up a vertical exhaust pipe to vent the fumes out the roof, Ive checked for flame problems having such a high head of ex' pipe, its makes no difference to the function of the flame. My van is a Transit MK6 2.4tdi, I binned the fuel pump & fitted a one wire pump off a 300TDI, runs like a champ & will run off anything, old veg oil, hydraulic oil etc at the mo' I have a 1000L of veg oil that was used for a release agent in the food industry it came in @ 15p a liter & its legal to use..........