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[*] posted on 1-12-2021 at 11:53 AM


My first experience with an electric camping fridge box was in the early 1980s with a Koolatron.
Was supposed to have 'satellite cooling technology', and use very little power...
Well, one day of the fridge running, on Shell Island, drained my battery. Lesson learned. You must drive every day for this thing to work!
A voltmeter and an auto cut off, before the battery is below the crank over point, is critical.
I went back to ice, problem solved!




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[*] posted on 1-12-2021 at 12:00 PM


Quote: Originally posted by David K  
My first experience with an electric camping fridge box was in the early 1980s with a Koolatron.
Was supposed to have 'satellite cooling technology', and use very little power...
Well, one day of the fridge running, on Shell Island, drained my battery. Lesson learned. You must drive every day for this thing to work!
A voltmeter and an auto cut off, before the battery is below the crank over point, is critical.
I went back to ice, problem solved!


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[*] posted on 1-12-2021 at 04:00 PM


Very sweet... maybe in my next lifetime? I guess they cost about as much as my old Tacoma?
Thanks JZ for sharing.




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[*] posted on 1-13-2021 at 11:14 AM


For us neanderthals that still rely on ice: I have used a large Yeti type cooler to store block ice (pre-frozen blocks made at home in dimensions that fill Yeti with little remaining dead air space)......and a secondary cooler that gets ice from the Yeti mother-cooler as needed....

I have been able to buy fresh meats and other items in Baja that need cooling.




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[*] posted on 1-13-2021 at 12:14 PM


Here is a wonderful little fridge with a pretty good price. 12 volt/110 volt.
Will freeze down to -7*.
We've been beating around Baja with it in the Blue Goat (Toyota tundra) and it has been flawless so far. Best edition to the camp set up by far.


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