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Installing a fridge in the trunk

Discussion in 'Interior' started by flavious27, Jun 9, 2003.

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    flavious27 Guest

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    Installing a fridge in the trunk

    One of the mods I wanted to make was adding a fridge and a car battery to supply it in the trunk. I was wondering how to connect the battery to the fridge.
    flavious27, Jun 9, 2003
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    Is this fridge supposed to operate when the car is not running? If so, you'll drain the battery pretty fast.
    oxymoron, Jun 9, 2003
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    Well i really won't have it run when the car isn't running. It has an adapter for 12V and also AC.
    flavious27, Jun 9, 2003
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    stinky Guest

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    run a wire from the main battery and then use the other battery as a back up. Similar to the RV's would use. that way you can run the fridge all the time, as long as you run the car for at least 1 hour a day of solid driving every day!
    stinky, Jun 10, 2003
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    okay thanks
    flavious27, Jun 10, 2003
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    That'll be one very hot trunk (with the fridge running in the summer)... I wouldn't want to be back there for any amount of time!
    bimmernut, Jun 10, 2003
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    if you got hot just put your head in the fridge :lol:
    stinky, Jun 10, 2003
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    snuggles Guest

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    Wow, i never heard of anyone wanting to put a fridge in thier car, this is a first! I never thought u could ever do that.
    snuggles, Jun 19, 2003
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    when the trunk heats up (like bimmernut said) the fridge will stop cooling altogether. It has to have a cooler air space around it for someplace to shed the heat it pulls out of the interior. So with no cooler air, it will run longer, making more hot air, so running longer....making more heat...you get the point. Hot (dare I say beer?) and bye bye compressor.

    Now if you could rig up some sort of vertical air circulation around it....maybe put some sort of vents on the trunk lid like they used to put on the hoods of old street rods...and a meshed off hole in the bottom of the trunk...sweet....
    03ToyMan, Jun 19, 2003
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    Ok getting complicated. I guess sticking with those 5 day coolers are better????

    If u just want to keep one cup cold, there's this thing i saw in a magazine, where u can keep a can of soda or cup of coffee hot as long as your car is on. It's like a lil cup holder that u plug into your cigerette thing and it's supposed to keep your cup cold or hot.
    snuggles, Jun 19, 2003
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    I've seen that too, in one of my wife's nifty-toy catalogs she gets all the time. We had something like it a while ago, excpet it was for baby bottles. Would keep it cool until we needed it, then flipped a switch on the cord and it warmed it up. Worked pretty well!
    03ToyMan, Jun 19, 2003
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