Mini fridge and 50,000 mAh lithium battery pack

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Thoughts please on this first world issue.
I want a 'baby' fridge in the awning purely to hold a 1 pint bottle of milk.
We always take a 2 litre bottle of milk which sits happily in our proper van fridge, but, it takes up the space of another Prosecco bottle, disastrous for swmbo.
A little/baby fridge like this one gets good reviews...

To power it for a few days, I'm hoping that this 50Ah battery pack can do the job...

The idea is that it will be good for the Mrs for me to make her first tea of the day while I am 'reading the newspaper' in the awning and not have to disturb her slumber while I access the van fridge with the 'slide bang' of the side door.
I know, I'm just too thoughtful, she is so lucky... I am hoping that I may be able to hide a can or two of Nitrosurge in there as well, but obviously that is of secondary concern...

Thoughts folks please?!
 
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put the wine in a bucket of cold water or
use powdered milk we ran out of milk whilst away last week and had to resort to sainsburys powdered milk and to be honest it was as good as fresh in tea
 
Bargy62 said:
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put the wine in a bucket of cold water or
use powdered milk we ran out of milk whilst away last week and had to resort to sainsburys powdered milk and to be honest it was as good as fresh in tea
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You've not met my Mrs! She would rather me go van to van begging for milk!
 
 
We’ll sometimes use tetrapak UHT milk so you only have to refrigerate once opened. Full fat is best. The skimmed version is disgusting (like normal skimmed milk!)!
 
Drive Wayne said:
Thoughts please on this first world issue.
I want a 'baby' fridge in the awning purely to hold a 1 pint bottle of milk.
We always take a 2 litre bottle of milk which sits happily in our proper van fridge, but, it takes up the space of another Prosecco bottle, disastrous for swmbo.
A little/baby fridge like this one gets good reviews...

To power it for a few days, I'm hoping that this 50Ah battery pack can do the job...

The idea is that it will be good for the Mrs for me to make her first tea of the day while I am 'reading the newspaper' in the awning and not have to disturb her slumber while I access the van fridge with the 'slide bang' of the side door.
I know, I'm just too thoughtful, she is so lucky... I am hoping that I may be able to hide a can or two of Nitrosurge in there as well, but obviously that is of secondary concern...

Thoughts folks please?!
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Buy the Pink one, Wayne.
 
Bargy62 said:
I dont know that fridge will get cold enough to keep milk fresh it says 8-16 degrees below room temp our awning get well hot in the summer
we have one of these for short trips as a freezer but can be used as a fridge
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Our proper drive away awning used to get really hot, but we just use a canopy style now (Outwell - Touring shelter air) which gives cover but is completely open to the front, it never gets too hot in there.
The Alpicool looks great but it's big and will suck the power. 8 - 16 degrees below room temp may well do it in an open environment.
Only one way to find out! Spend Wifeys money... report back later... I'm hoping those 50Ah power packs are safe!
 
Drive Wayne said:
Thoughts please on this first world issue.
I want a 'baby' fridge in the awning purely to hold a 1 pint bottle of milk.
We always take a 2 litre bottle of milk which sits happily in our proper van fridge, but, it takes up the space of another Prosecco bottle, disastrous for swmbo.
A little/baby fridge like this one gets good reviews...

To power it for a few days, I'm hoping that this 50Ah battery pack can do the job...

The idea is that it will be good for the Mrs for me to make her first tea of the day while I am 'reading the newspaper' in the awning and not have to disturb her slumber while I access the van fridge with the 'slide bang' of the side door.
I know, I'm just too thoughtful, she is so lucky... I am hoping that I may be able to hide a can or two of Nitrosurge in there as well, but obviously that is of secondary concern...

Thoughts folks please?!
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Those fridges are thermo electric peltia elements.. and power hungry.

Basically the same as I said to you at spring camp, all of the small fridges are this type of tech and it will match any battery pack you've got fairly quickly and a very inefficient.

Half of the power goes off in heat out the back with a noisy fan.

They don't spec the watts or milliamps or any type of power draw on that advert. (s of the fridge ). But they do show they can be powered from five volt USB or 12 volt car adapter.

But I'd still expect it to empty out a 50,000 milliamp hour battery pack within a day question mark not sure if you'll get two?..... Any other thing is how long would it take you to recharge that massive USB battery pack probably longer than the two days?
 
Dellmassive said:
Those fridges are thermo electric peltia elements.. and power hungry.

Basically the same as I said to you at spring camp, all of the small fridges are this type of tech and it will match any battery pack you've got fairly quickly and a very inefficient.

Half of the power goes off in heat out the back with a noisy fan.

They don't spec the watts or milliamps or any type of power draw on that advert. (s of the fridge ). But they do show they can be powered from five volt USB or 12 volt car adapter.

But I'd still expect it to empty out a 50,000 milliamp hour battery pack within a day question mark not sure if you'll get two?..... Any other thing is how long would it take you to recharge that massive USB battery pack probably longer than the two days?
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Thanks Lee, do you reckon those 50Ah power packs are ok? We might just take a couple of one pinters in the van fridge.
 
Drive Wayne said:
Thanks Lee, do you reckon those 50Ah power packs are ok? We might just take a couple of one pinters in the van fridge.
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Don't know I've not used them?

But I don't know that it's not actually 50 amp hours they fudge the numbers.

That will be 50,000 milliamp hours at the 3.2 volt nominal cell voltage.

The value drops when you convert up to 5 volt.

There's no specs on the fridge, so it may last for five hours it may last for 48 hours... There is no way of telling without either a what's or other power figures to work it out.

See if you can find a similar size fridge that gives you some idea of how much power draw it takes ia 20 Watts 40 Watts 50 Watts 10 watts....

Pursley Owen bother with that stuff, like I said I've had him before anything rubbish and only called down to x degrees below ambient.... The power hungry and blow out loads of hot air... Fine if you're on unmated mains but if you're running on battery of any type they're very inefficient.

I would imagine the cooler is a probably five watt element... Probably running at 5 volt 1 amp to give you five Watts.

On that assumption you would be using one amp hour per hour 24 amp hours per day and 48 and power per two days.....

I'm not sure if that USB power pack could deliver one amp continuously for 48 hours straight?
 
Dellmassive said:
Don't know I've not used them?

But I don't know that it's not actually 50 amp hours they fudge the numbers.

That will be 50,000 milliamp hours at the 3.2 volt nominal cell voltage.

The value drops when you convert up to 5 volt.

There's no specs on the fridge, so it may last for five hours it may last for 48 hours... There is no way of telling without either a what's or other power figures to work it out.

See if you can find a similar size fridge that gives you some idea of how much power draw it takes ia 20 Watts 40 Watts 50 Watts 10 watts....

Pursley Owen bother with that stuff, like I said I've had him before anything rubbish and only called down to x degrees below ambient.... The power hungry and blow out loads of hot air... Fine if you're on unmated mains but if you're running on battery of any type they're very inefficient.

I would imagine the cooler is a probably five watt element... Probably running at 5 volt 1 amp to give you five Watts.

On that assumption you would be using one amp hour per hour 24 amp hours per day and 48 and power per two days.....

I'm not sure if that USB power pack could deliver one amp continuously for 48 hours straight?
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It draws 20 watts at 12v the spec says.
 
Drive Wayne said:
Thoughts please on this first world issue.
I want a 'baby' fridge in the awning purely to hold a 1 pint bottle of milk.
We always take a 2 litre bottle of milk which sits happily in our proper van fridge, but, it takes up the space of another Prosecco bottle, disastrous for swmbo.
A little/baby fridge like this one gets good reviews...

To power it for a few days, I'm hoping that this 50Ah battery pack can do the job...

The idea is that it will be good for the Mrs for me to make her first tea of the day while I am 'reading the newspaper' in the awning and not have to disturb her slumber while I access the van fridge with the 'slide bang' of the side door.
I know, I'm just too thoughtful, she is so lucky... I am hoping that I may be able to hide a can or two of Nitrosurge in there as well, but obviously that is of secondary concern...

Thoughts folks please?!
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Have you considered UHT or dried milk powder. Wet tea cloth draped over a bottle over night. At the moment the the temps are quite low at night still a couple of nights a go freezing in fact with frost on the fields. Change your beer habits to Real ale bought from the pub in suitable container, will only last a day or two perhaps but rink it and buy some more . Real ale is not served at very low temperatures. Train SWMBO to drink Red wine instead of Presecco, again drank better warm or tepid. Then their will be more room in the fridge.
 
Drive Wayne said:
Our proper drive away awning used to get really hot, but we just use a canopy style now (Outwell - Touring shelter air) which gives cover but is completely open to the front, it never gets too hot in there.
The Alpicool looks great but it's big and will suck the power. 8 - 16 degrees below room temp may well do it in an open environment.
Only one way to find out! Spend Wifeys money... report back later... I'm hoping those 50Ah power packs are safe!
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8-16C below external temp would mean on a reasonable summers day (Maybe 24C) the fridge temp would be 8-16C. I wouldn't want milk kept at those temps for long.
 
Kind of Blue said:
Have you considered UHT or dried milk powder. Wet tea cloth draped over a bottle over night. At the moment the the temps are quite low at night still a couple of nights a go freezing in fact with frost on the fields. Change your beer habits to Real ale bought from the pub in suitable container, will only last a day or two perhaps but rink it and buy some more . Real ale is not served at very low temperatures. Train SWMBO to drink Red wine instead of Presecco, again drank better warm or tepid. Then their will be more room in the fridge.
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Training the Mrs, as has been mentioned, is out of the question! Regarding milk it's the same reason she will never have a Ford either, the thought makes her feel sick!
Prosecco is a social T6 Forum ladies thing, she will go on to the red wine when the Prosecco is no more, unless there is Kraken knocking around or any kind of Rum for that matter! We will be bringing smaller bottles of milk, we never use a whole 2 litre bottle anyway...
Seeing as its her money I may well do a road test on that cheap fridge and power pack, I've literally nothing to lose! If there's plenty of sun I can put the power pack on to charge, or run a long USB lead from the van, worst case we can use it to level the awning table or Cadac.
 
Buy longline milk in 1L containers - we use semi-skimmed. Someone else will do the sums but I doubt if the fridge / power bank combo would meet your spec.
 
Skyliner33 said:
8-16C below external temp would mean on a reasonable summers day (Maybe 24C) the fridge temp would be 8-16C. I wouldn't want milk kept at those temps for long.
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Under the van in the shade, it's worth a try!
Ayjay said:
Buy longline milk in 1L containers - we use semi-skimmed. Someone else will do the sums but I doubt if the fridge / power bank combo would meet your spec.
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There's very little she asks for in life, that's why she's got me, but she does need a proppa cuppa, it's the least I can do!
 
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