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Tom
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I have been having difficulty with my CFX28 fridge staying on. A quick tweak of the cigar lighter plug usually resolves the issue, but I am having to do this with increasing frequency. I decided to hard wire it direct to the leisure battery (a Beach has just one leisure battery under the passenger seat.)
For a reasonable cost of £12.67 I ordered a fused terminal to Anderson link and a single Anderson connector, see below together with the CFX28 12 volt lead.
I removed the cigar lighter plug and replaced it with the Anderson connector.
I successfully wired the whole thing up to the leisure battery. Voltage at the Anderson connecter was measured at 13.34 Volts. Voltage at the CFX28 plug was measured at 13.21 Volts.
Unfortunately, when I plug in the fridge I get nothing.
The only thing I can think of is that I have managed to reverse positive and negative. The cable to the CFX28 plug is a double black wire. The only way to identify that they are different is a ridge on one of the two wires. 12 Volt convention appears to be that -ve is plain and +ve is marked, and I assumed this convention when wiring the Anderson connector to the CFX28 lead. Before I switch the wires in the Anderson connector, (which is fairly simple but fiddly), is there anything else I should be checking first.
Could I have damaged the fridge by wiring incorrectly?
For a reasonable cost of £12.67 I ordered a fused terminal to Anderson link and a single Anderson connector, see below together with the CFX28 12 volt lead.
I removed the cigar lighter plug and replaced it with the Anderson connector.
I successfully wired the whole thing up to the leisure battery. Voltage at the Anderson connecter was measured at 13.34 Volts. Voltage at the CFX28 plug was measured at 13.21 Volts.
Unfortunately, when I plug in the fridge I get nothing.
The only thing I can think of is that I have managed to reverse positive and negative. The cable to the CFX28 plug is a double black wire. The only way to identify that they are different is a ridge on one of the two wires. 12 Volt convention appears to be that -ve is plain and +ve is marked, and I assumed this convention when wiring the Anderson connector to the CFX28 lead. Before I switch the wires in the Anderson connector, (which is fairly simple but fiddly), is there anything else I should be checking first.
Could I have damaged the fridge by wiring incorrectly?