12v fridge

I bought a 240/12 volt cool box from Aldi and all the chilled food I take away goes in this box plugged into the 12v socket in the boot of the car. When on site the box goes in the awning plugged into the external 240v socket to keep the drinks cool.

Oh, no! You don't use lekky in the awning, surely!😱🤣🤣🤣

Well at least the heat generated by my cool box does keep the awning toasty warm

And no curtain twitchers complain👍🤣🤣

I have caravanned over a 40 year period. I have only pre-cooled the fridge for the last 15 years and not a problem.

In days of yore when I had a caravan without mains supply, we loaded the fridge as normal, including some frozen items spread among them, travelled overnight on the ferry and drove for a day to the campsite. The only power that the fridge had in that 24 hour period was the fifteen minute drive to the ferry and eight hours or so en route to our destination. The frozen stuff was still 70% frozen upon arrival.

PS. Might be worth changing your user name to something less cumbersome unless you want to be known as Double O thirty seven.

Agreed, even tho the van sits on the drive, we never pre-cool the fridge.

It works remarkably well on all power sources, including 12v, and we just load up the fridge/freezer as the last thing before departure and off we go.

On arrival, fridge cool, contents fine, hassle free.

With the 13 pin plug and socket ,on caravan/towcar according to a Dometic  engineer, it will only maintain the fridge temp, it will not cool it if not already cold ,Normally on motor caravans the  commercial base vehicle has a higher output alternator and the wiring is also of heavier also a shorter run , so can cool a fridge

After pre-cooling for 15 years, it should be fine.

We generally pre-cool as we like to have most of the food loaded up the day before we travel.  We find our Thetford fridge/freezer gets much colder on 12v than the Dometic one in our previous van did.