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General Operating Tips
• Your Dobinsons 80 litre fridge freezer is split into 2 compartments, a 55 litre and a 25 litre
compartment. Both compartments are fully temperature adjustable. You can set both as a
freezer, both as a fridge or either as fridge and freezer. In most cases in extended trips, setting
the 25 litre cabinet to freezer and the 55 litre cabinet to fridge will work best as in most cases the
amount of frozen food is conziderably less than the food and drinks stored in the fridge.
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• It is recommended that if you are planning on taking the fridge/freezer in your vehicle or boat
that first you connect the fridge/freezer at home or to an AC power supply a day or 2 before
leaving to cool the fridge/freezer and contents. This will avoid thawing of some contents if placed
into a fridge/freezer that has just been turned on and will also reduce the power usage on the
vehicle/boat battery.
•• The fridge/freezer is fitted with an internal basket and divider. This basket will only fit 1 way
into the fridge as the mounting legs slide over the fresh goods compartment. If fitting tall bottles
in the fridge/freezer the basket can be removed to allow the bottles to sit in the lower recess. It is
recommended however that the basket be used where possible. The internal divider can be
used to separate beverages from food.
•• It is recommended that you do not over load your fridge and that if possible you keep
ventilation room between each product. This will allow the fridge/freezer to operate most
efficiently, will allow the lid to seal properly and will help prevent hotspots.
•• If you are regularly taking beverages from the fridge/freezer and will be re-filling the
fridge/freezer with hot/room temperature beverages, it is recommended that you replace the
beverages from the fridge/freezer with your room temperature beverages as often as you
remove them or as often as possible, rather than emptying the fridge/freezer and replacing with
a large quantities of room temperature beverages. This will allow the fridge/freezer to operate
more efficiently, will reduce power consumption, will, prevent the room temperature beverages
lowering the temperature of the other contents, will help to prevent humidity build up in the
fridge and will also ensure a constant supply of cold beverages/contents.
fridge and will also ensure a constant supply of cold beverages/contents.
• Your Dobinsons fridge/freezer is equipped with an internal fresh goods compartment at the
rear at the top. This compartment generally is a few degrees warmer than the main fridge
compartment and is recommended that this compartment be used to store things like fruit and
vegetables that may not need to be as cool as the other items in the main compartment. This
compartment will also keep these items dry in case of a spillage in the main compartment.
• Where possible stand canned & bottled beverages upright.
OPERATION
