Member- Tony C posted:

Derek,
Just wondered if you could tell me how much quicker my 105ah battery would run down maintaining a 40litre Engel at freeze temperatures compared with normal fridge temps?
I am going on a trip soon and have a fair amount of meat in the deep freeze and tossing up wether tp take it frozen or thaw it out before hand and have it vaccum sealed.
Cheers
Tony

Affordable Batteries & Radiators posted:

Cryovac is the way to go especially if you only have 105 a/h which is around 3 days in fridge mode.

Most butchers will prepare your cryovac portions for your trip. I had this done for my last trip and had the meat right at the bottom of the fridge under the cold beer.

Just make sure they are a reputable shop and keep your fridge at around 1 to 3 deg.

Member- Tony C posted:

Thanks Derek.Thats a great help you have more than answered my question. cheers Tony

Mainey (wa) posted:

Kc
I understand at Minus four degrees (-4) water will actually turn to ice
as most veggies are mainly water, why don't they suffer from 'freezer burn' and wilt ??

Maybe the temp gauge is not too accurate ??

Mainey . . .

kcandco posted:

Hi Mainey

I transfere goodies from the home fridge at about +4 to the car fridge. I put drinks and meat type goods on the bottom closest to the cooling element and place vegies or other more fragile items in the top basket. That way I find the drinks very cold, probably near ice stage but the vegies ok. The digital readout says -4 but bear in mind that it is at the bottom of the fridge and also that a full load is placed into the fridge so it takes a while to chill all this down. I dare say that any longer would see problems with freezing , just as you say. Before installing the dual battery system I also used to freeze as much as possible.

regards Kc