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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by MitchMan
| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
Whynter 65 quart Portable Fridge All you need is either a standard household 110 Volt outlet or a 12 Volt power source. The Whynter
portable freezers should not to be confused with less effective 12 volt novelty and beverage type "coolers". The Whynter portable freezer / fridge is
a true freezer / refrigerator which cools between -8°F to 50°F. A cost effective and mobile solution for your recreational and critical freezing
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Just out of curiosity, how many watts per hour does this fridge/freezer use? |
Model: FM-65G
Capacity: 65 Quarts or 107 Cans (12FL oz) Capacity
Operates as a refrigerator or freezer
Compressor Cooling System
Voltage power AC (110V/60Hz - 75W / 0.8A)
or DC (12V/24V - 4.5A/2.5A Car Lighter Socket)
Wattage: 75 Watts
power consumption running off 110V = .075 kWh while compressor is running. However at coldest setting it shuts off when temp gets to -8 and doesn't
come back on until temp gets up to zero which takes about 3 hours in the shade.
Hence it is only consuming power 1/4th of the time maximum and will take 53.3 hours to consume 1 kW
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unfortunately these numbers are meaningless, they dont factor in
ambient temperature and more importantly, the number of times the chest is opened and closed. I'd just buy ice. 
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As David suggested earlier - we take two coolers - one for food/beer, the other exclusively for ice. A few days before we leave, we take gallon jugs
of water and freeze 'em then use THAT as our block ice...and when it melts, we drink it. A twofer.
Yeti coolers are among the best & toughest available but if you haven't seen 'em yet, you should ogle the new Pelican line. Something to covet.
http://www.pelican.com/case_category_coolers.php?CaseType=El...
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I've got a portable electric ice maker it's like 1'x2'x2' 120 volt. Makes a tray of ice every 8 minutes. Just add water and the thing cranks out ice.
It runs off the inverter in my van. Smart + products on Amazon. No more messing with those stupid trays and saves room in freezer
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
You can buy block ice whenever you see it. Just make sure that it is made with potable water. |
In Mexico, at least for my tastes, potable water and purified water are two different things. Tap water is supposed to be potable but only the poorest
Mexican drink it over here. Everyone pays for purified.
I'm not sure I've ever seen block ice made with purified water in Mexico; water that you could trust in drinks. Usually block ice is sold at the ice
houses and I've never seen good, clear block ice at the ones I've been to. It's always the cloudy stuff for cooling down fish.
I'm in a truck camper these days and use the built in absorption fridge for foods and making ice. It makes 2-4 standard sized trays in 24 hours. We
leave with a gallon ziplock of cubes and keep that replenished for adding to drinks.
But we also carry our Norcold 45 qt. for all cold beverages. Swing compressor drawing 2.1 amps/12v when running. It's fed by a gp31 AGM and 140 watts
of solar. I havent had to buy ice in two summers of 2.5 months of travel. It's nice not having to deal with buying bags of ice. So, those days are
done for me, except when fishing. And even then, I bring out frozen bottles when fishing out of my home port.
But the savvy, long-term campers I saw in Baja used to have one large chest with a block of dry ice and they would keep blocks and cubes in this and
draw on it. They also vacuum sealed all frozen meats and kept them in there, AWAY from the dry ice. Everything else was in a drink cooler and a
perishable, non-frozen, food cooler.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
ok,,kids..THE TWO TYPES OF ALTERNATORS ARE.."delta" AND :"wye" AND NETHER PUT OUT CRAP AT idle>>>MUST HAVE rpms ABOVE 2k..fact !!!!
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 Don't know about putting out crap but my volt meter says 14v at idle same as at 2k
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Just because it is putting out 14v, doesn't mean it's producing any amperage.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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