Electric Coolers

Bull Rider wrote:
Great information here. We've been wanting a good electric cooler for a while. I've been looking at the Coleman type, but the reviews were terrible.

I ordered the 63 quart Edgestar from Amazon this morning. Got free shipping. Now, if it can get here in Washington State before Friday.

LOL, I never thought I would spend over $500.00 on a freaking cooler.... :)

But buying two bags of ice every other day gets old too...

mark my word you're gonna wonder why you waited so long ! Its amazing how much room ICE takes up in a cooler. I was impressed with how much more i could get in a cooler when i didn't need ice.

can't wait to hear your review.

let me know when you're ready to put it on a slide out in your basement & i can make some recommendations for slides.

Bull Rider wrote:

Francesca Knowles wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:


gee, a $500 cooler works better than a $69 one. who'd of thunk it.
bumpy

But does it work better than yer similar-size basic hundred dollar "dorm type" fridge/freezer? link to one

Now that we're talkin' compressor units: except for the fact that one is upright and one is chest-style how do these differ?

These coolers have compressors and can get down to below zero, which isn't very handy for a cooler, but they get as cold as you would like, and chill items down quickly. They can be used as a freezer too, so if you're going into the Big City to buy frozen stuff, you can keep your groceries frozen until you get back to camp.

The cheapo Colemans only get down to ambient less 40 degrees, and take a long time to do that. So on a hot day, in the back canopy of a truck with an ambient of 100 degrees, you're looking at a cooler temp. of about 60 degrees.

Guess I asked the question wrong- we're all done talkin' about "thermoelectrics'!
Now we're on compressor fridges...the hundred dollar fridge I linked to ALSO has a compressor. It's an upright minifridge/freezer like you find in motels. Just tryin' to find out what the diff is, performance-wise, between it and the $500.00 compressor coolers we're now talking about.

Francesca Knowles wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:


gee, a $500 cooler works better than a $69 one. who'd of thunk it.
bumpy

But does it work better than yer similar-size basic hundred dollar "dorm type" fridge/freezer? link to one

Now that we're talkin' compressor units: except for the fact that one is upright and one is chest-style how do these differ?

These coolers have compressors and can get down to below zero, which isn't very handy for a cooler, but they get as cold as you would like, and chill items down quickly. They can be used as a freezer too, so if you're going into the Big City to buy frozen stuff, you can keep your groceries frozen until you get back to camp.

The cheapo Colemans only get down to ambient less 40 degrees, and take a long time to do that. So on a hot day, in the back canopy of a truck with an ambient of 100 degrees, you're looking at a cooler temp. of about 60 degrees.

Bumpy.

If I ever get back your way, I'm going to track you down....


and buy you a beer. Your dry sense of humor and short acerbic responses crack me up. Maybe I will buy you several beers... :-)


Best regards.

Bumpyroad wrote:


gee, a $500 cooler works better than a $69 one. who'd of thunk it.
bumpy

But does it work better than yer similar-size basic hundred dollar "dorm type" fridge/freezer? link to one

Now that we're talkin' compressor units: except for the fact that one is upright and one is chest-style how do these differ?

Bull Rider wrote:
Great information here. We've been wanting a good electric cooler for a while. I've been looking at the Coleman type, but the reviews were terrible.

I ordered the 63 quart Edgestar from Amazon this morning. Got free shipping. Now, if it can get here in Washington State before Friday.

LOL, I never thought I would spend over $500.00 on a freaking cooler.... :)

But buying two bags of ice every other day gets old too...

gee, a $500 cooler works better than a $69 one. who'd of thunk it.
bumpy

Great information here. We've been wanting a good electric cooler for a while. I've been looking at the Coleman type, but the reviews were terrible.

I ordered the 63 quart Edgestar from Amazon this morning. Got free shipping. Now, if it can get here in Washington State before Friday.

LOL, I never thought I would spend over $500.00 on a freaking cooler.... :)

But buying two bags of ice every other day gets old too...

surgtech56 wrote:
Does anyone have an electric cooler? We usually keep our beverages in a regular cooler and not in the refrigerator of the TT. Saw one of these electric coolers, Coleman made this one, it was AC and had an outlet for a vehicle. During the hot summer months we go through a lot of ice. LOL We probably take too many beverages,etc...

I got both one of the Danfoss compressor type Frig/Freezer (NORCOLD MRFT-40) and a small compact like 12qt. Kooltron Peltier type thermoelectric cooler. We use the NORCOLD as an aux freezer and the Kooltron mainly for things like salad dressings and veggies to save refer space in our main refer. Each has it use an I run the Kooltron on a plug in 12V supply hooked up to a timer so the element won't freeze up (on 12hrs and off 1hr). Only downside is you have to watch the cooling fins in the Kooltron or they will frost over and reduce it's cooling efficiency.

Larry

I have both an Engel 45 and Edgestar 86 quart.
They are both adjustable from 50 to -10. I use one as a freezer and one as a fridge. Nice and dry without ice and double the room for food.
Both heavy and expensive, Engel more $$.

I have a coleman thermoelectric from years ago and it sucks. I have not used it in over 10 years. The only good thing about it is that you can reverse it and the peltier plate becomes a heater. Now you can keep foods hot.

wcjeep wrote:
ARB makes a great one. Not cheap. The cheap units are good for about 20deg difference. Would be OK if on shore power or moving with vehicle alternator.

depends on the coach - my coach (engine) alternator charges the house batteries while we're traveling, so the 12vdc supplied to the basement cooler never stops & our house batteries stay charged.

NO cooler will run better on 120vac any better than it does on 12vdc.

Thermo-electrics won't do a sufficient job in the summer. compressor units will go down to at least -5 degrees (below zero) (f) - even on the hottest days.