Hi there. Having just upgraded all my camping gear to include some home comforts, I am now looking into electric cool boxes and running one off my 110ah leisure battery.
Any advice for a quiet one which functions well?
Will it drain the battery very quickly?
We trickle charge the battery off a 12w solar sheet by the way.
Not sure if the electric coolbox will be much of an advantage over a none electric one?
It wont last long on a leisure battery, it will drain it quickly as they are designed to be used off a battery only with the engine running while travelling.
These extreme coolboxes from Coleman sound good. One review on the smaller one. Two ice packs are supposed to keep contents cool for 5 days at a time, so a lot different to the normal type where you have to change the ice packs every day. Most sites do usually have a service freezer for this purpose though.
We've got one of the igloo boxes the 24L(38cans)"Picnic Basket" model(had it for 5-6 years now)and it's great bit of kit..
Very durable as it's not made of the thin brittle plastics that some camping stuff seems to be made of! (..it's survived being dragged across many festival sites!)
..and if stuff is chilled before hand and you include a couple of bottles of frozen water, it'll keep stuff cool for a good 4-5 days.
Even though we've now got a "full size" fridge/freezer in the MH,I still use it to take the beer in... (..as the OH will insist on putting food in the fridge..)
We've got the large Coleman Xtreme and it is unspeakably brilliant!
It really did still have ice cubes unmelted after four days of use - albeit not in blistering heat outdoors but in July nonetheless.
Also large enough to double up as a small table for drinks etc - it even has cup holders in the lid for that purpose.
My wife says it's the greatest thing ever.
We prepared some meals before our trip - froze them, froze some water in bottles and loaded up the box. Even on day six the frozen food was still frozen.
Also great for a cold beer or a nice cold white wine when you feel you deserve one ....
------------- Gordon
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Topic: Coolbox on a leisure battery.
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