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| bankz5152 Member Since: 02 Feb 2017 Location: South London/North Kent Posts: 2169  
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Why cant you run a fridge?
The bearmach ones have less draw when running than the leccy coolboxes. If your set on a leccy cool box Halfords do great ones. Instagram @defender_ventures Empire Tuning - Agent |
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2nd Sep 2020 7:44pm |
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| Bluest Member Since: 23 Apr 2016 Location: Lancashire Posts: 4210  
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Electric cool boxes are pretty pants and have no advantages over a compressor fridge apart from cost and maybe weight. 2007 110 TDCi Station Wagon XS
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2nd Sep 2020 7:57pm |
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| Devon-Rover Member Since: 22 Jan 2015 Location: South Devon Posts: 916 
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If you can then a fridge will above and beyond server you better.
https://www.svb24.com/en/mobicool-mcf40-compressor-cooler.html Also can be found on Fb, Ytube, Insta & Twitter @4WDSouthwest |
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2nd Sep 2020 8:06pm |
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| db950 Member Since: 01 Feb 2012 Location: Lincoln Posts: 560 
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For their price the Halfords ones are fine. We ran the 40 litre one for a couple of years caravanning as a second fridge running on mains.
They do run the batteries down fast but if only on when the vehicle is running you’ll be fine. Ours kept the drinks cool even when sat in a hot awning all day. 1997 Ex-MOD 110, Pop Top Camper, build thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic72352.html 2014 Discovery 4 SE Tech Instagram @the110camper |
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2nd Sep 2020 8:32pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20382
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What temp do you realistically get out of the fridges out of interest? $W33T $0U7H3RN $UG4R
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2nd Sep 2020 8:45pm |
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| Bluest Member Since: 23 Apr 2016 Location: Lancashire Posts: 4210
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My ARB will run as a Freezer no problem. I think most will. 2007 110 TDCi Station Wagon XS
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2nd Sep 2020 9:07pm |
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| stew 46 Member Since: 26 Jan 2012 Location: Wadebridge ,cornwall . Posts: 561  
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+ 1 for Halfords if don’t want to spend much , they do a good job for a small trip
I have a national Luna for my expedition trailer but there huge money new but the best  |
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2nd Sep 2020 9:15pm |
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| Gasket Member Since: 30 May 2020 Location: Manchester Posts: 629 |
Thanks guys - that’s two votes for a Halfords one.
Sorry, to clarify - it’s not that I can’t run a fridge it’s that I can’t run-to one at the moment (cool box is £50-£100 while a fridge is £hundreds). For the UK then it’ll just be for drinks and lunches rather than raw meat or anything. This is the first of a series of shake-down runs but I am planning on getting it down to North Africa next year, by which time I’ll have saved up for a proper compressor fridge. |
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2nd Sep 2020 10:21pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831 
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If you want the best then I would go for a Dometic but they are expensive, Go outdoor have a Quest 3 way for just over £200.00 but I don't know what they are like. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to  us off.
Richard |
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3rd Sep 2020 8:33am |
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| Mdm Member Since: 11 Sep 2013 Location: Sunny Lancashire Posts: 1601
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to be fair cool boxes are a waste of money
they use lots of electric and will often melt the plug or socket they go into bearmach and any of the other cheaper brands do ok. they will happily work as a back up freezer as mine are in the house currently. better of saving for something you keep a long time |
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3rd Sep 2020 11:06am |
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| Bluest Member Since: 23 Apr 2016 Location: Lancashire Posts: 4210
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I think the absolute best you can expect from thermo-electric coolbox is for it to knock about 7 to 10 degrees C off the ambient. They are helped a lot if you load them with pre-chilled items and you limit opening them as much as possible. Probably fine for keeping drinks cool in less hot times of year (i.e most of the time in the UK). I wouldn't want to keep anyhting perishable in one. I had a Waeco Mobicool one in hot weather for a three week camping trip and it really was useless, it just soaked everything in condensation, made items slightly less warm and hammered the auxiliary battery. 2007 110 TDCi Station Wagon XS
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3rd Sep 2020 11:48am |
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| MichaelE Member Since: 18 Jan 2020 Location: Crawley West Sussex Posts: 155
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I've had the biggest of the Halfords ones for 3 years now. Used for the weekend events - Billing, Kelmarsh LRO etc. I've kept everything in it - , steaks, other meats, drinks, milk, butter etc. It has worked perfectly, easily down to 5C. I've powered it up from my second battery every few hours, never let me down, never had spoiled food. Next year it will be going on an extended UK tour should I find myself in forced retirement/redundancy [airline engineer so highly likely] and I see no need to get a fridge. If I turn out to be wrong, I'll be sure to report back.
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4th Sep 2020 5:38am |
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| db950 Member Since: 01 Feb 2012 Location: Lincoln Posts: 560
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Same as my findings MichaelE, very happy with the big Halfords one, I thought I may of had a faulty one with everyone saying how rubbish they are
For 10th of the cost of a decent compressor fridge they are great, so much so I replaced like for like when the first one got water damage in winter storage (shed leaked on it!) To put it in perspective...when caravanning I bought 2 x 110ah leisure batteries, a 140w solar panel, a 1000w inverter and the big Halfords cool box all for less money than the likes of the ARB fridge. I’m not saying they are better, just value for money 1997 Ex-MOD 110, Pop Top Camper, build thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic72352.html
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4th Sep 2020 6:32am |
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| excossack Member Since: 22 Feb 2012 Location: North West Posts: 5844 
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We run a normal coolbox like the Halfords one and while its thirsty on the juice, if we freeze the likes of milk & bottles of water we don't need to run it. 1999 Defender TD5 110
Regards John M0VAZ Econet Station 48 no clock |
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4th Sep 2020 7:48am |
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