More questions regarding coolboxes / fridges etc!

[Fassi]

When I bought my bongo I was happy to see a fridge installed and the guy saying that it worked. He however forgot to tell me that it was a 230v currys table top that was only on when connected to an EHU.

I had a 600w inverter lying about so stuck in in behind the glove box and tried running the fridge from that. It nearly works good apart from having to recycle power to the inverter each time the fridge compressor kicks in. I'm just using this system temporary until I get home. Maybe get a new fridge or a bigger inverter that can handle the surge. So strange that i can just flick the switch off and on manually and it starts working again but the 'intelligent' power supply in the inverter can't do it. I've extended the switch and led indication so it is handy next to the handbrake. Lets me turn the inverter on and off when i wish easily and know if the overload has kicked in. Not ideal but better than nothing in the meantime. Plus when I get an EHU it is all good. The switch on the left does the scavenger fan as of today as well. One on the right is inverter

I had this issue with my (300W) inverter and a low power device like my sons PS2. The capacitance of the device pulled a momentary load that threw the inverters overload switch. But by switching the inverter off and on again, it would easily power the device. I think the trick worked because the capacitance in the PS2 'held' the electricity for long enough to restart the inverter, and the PS2 then no longer needed to pull such a large load. Its as though the overload switch in the inverter needs to allow overload for a tad more than time than it does. Perhaps your fridge poses the inverter a similar problem

Sounds about right