Engel fridge - compressor incident?

TheRoadie

Explorer
Have an Engel 45 only a few months old. After a particularly bouncy ride Sunday, the compressor seemed to stay on at 100% duty cycle into Monday, but not cool off very much. Probably 50 degrees instead of 34. But it sounded exactly normal, just constantly running. Using a second battery which never sank under 11.6V.

Turned it off overnight hoping it wasn't a coolant leak or something else wrong.

Turned it back on, and within 8 hours, was back to its normal 34 degrees at 1.5 on the dial.

Anyone seeing this behavior? I suspect a coolant bubble or something locked up the compressor flow, even though it has a great capacity to work off-level. But there isn't a G-force spec, so maybe a few cycles of near-zero G upsets it?
 

elcoyote

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I have had this happen but once and the fridge was not very well secured. Call the folks at Engel at 561-743-7419 and tell them what happened. They'll let you know if you have something to be worried about.
 

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