you may not have to run it for to long as soon as you have room in your other fridge you can turn that one off
Mini fridge and 50,000 mAh lithium battery pack
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If there's no/little solar we may have to turn it off anyway, but it is the milk fridge, making the awning 'self contained' for her convenience! Poor girl has dodgy knees and it hurts her to kneel into the van to access the proper fridge. She will find it useful and I'm hoping 3 cans of Guiness can be rehomed in there, chilled ready to pour.
If your fridge has a small freezer section you could stick one of those refreezable blue iceblocks in it and then use a small thermal cooler bag with the milk and an iceblock in it. Using 2 blocks would allow 1 in freezer and 1 with milk, just swap them around as they melt. No additional energy required.
Thanks @Jarvie.I , the fridge of my wife's dreams has now been bought! Hoping it does the job!
Loving the new fridge, and with the levellers on top it makes a perfect extended armrest!
Just a quick report back on the wifes Outwell Arctic Chill 8 awning/milk fridge at the Bala meet.
It was perfect. A 2 pinter of milk, 3 cans of Nitrosurge, butter, chickens breasts and @garyp1969 's grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese all lived in there.
Anyone needing an additional mini fridge for the awning will be very happy with one of these, with its dual use as an extended armrest between the front seats as well, it really was the perfect product. 2x USB charging ports and a wireless phone charger all built in.
Wired off an additional cigarette lighter socket from the LB, wifey was very happy, so was I because she bought it!
Thanks again @Bargy62 and @moomin-j for your sound advice.
It was perfect. A 2 pinter of milk, 3 cans of Nitrosurge, butter, chickens breasts and @garyp1969 's grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese all lived in there.
Anyone needing an additional mini fridge for the awning will be very happy with one of these, with its dual use as an extended armrest between the front seats as well, it really was the perfect product. 2x USB charging ports and a wireless phone charger all built in.
Wired off an additional cigarette lighter socket from the LB, wifey was very happy, so was I because she bought it!
Thanks again @Bargy62 and @moomin-j for your sound advice.
@Drive Wayne how did you get on battery wise with it or did you have EHU
It used a bit less than our 50 litre one, there was enough sun/solar for me to not really notice a big drain.
The power usage graphs from the Cerbo are very 'busy', difficult to read it's fair to say!
I'll add one in a bit for you to decipher!
It was a ridiculous graph! This is from today with only one fridge makes sense!
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I did some real world.testing of the battery option on my P18 over here as wellThe trial started yesterday at 5pm and will run for 24hrs
The portable fridge/freezer is an Alpicool C9 being 9 litres capacity
It was chilled down to 0⁰c indoors on 240v but in reality it was probably a degree warmerView attachment 286385
The empty fridge was put in the van at 5pm on a 12v supply a renogy LiFePo4 fully charged at 100 Ah with no charging input so solely reliant on the battery
The fridge has maintained its temperature throughout even when the van internal temperature rose to 31.95⁰c which could be the same as an awning in the sunView attachment 286386View attachment 286387
The fridge indoors appears to run for 4 minutes in every 15 to maintain 0⁰cView attachment 286388
And at 5pm today the battery was down to 82.3 Ah using a total of 17.7 A
When running at 5pm it was drawing 2.6A
Which sort of confirms the 4 minutes in every 15.5 bit
The floor is now open to questions
The built in battery is approximately 15.6Ah and I reckon I get 24-30 hour runtime so long as it's pre chilled.
Peltier/Thermoelectric cool boxes have their place for transportation between real fridges but having used just about every fridge method in the book the only thing the small desktop "fridges" are useful for is filling landfill faster...
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