When I grow up...

Just be thankful we have the freedom of choice Wolfie. You can buy a rolls royce or something at the other end of the scale in the end they both get you there...hopefully.

Now, what's wrong with the 35 litre for day trips, are you short of room. My missus always gives me enough food for 3 days in case I get stuck but she's only wishing.

Now a little bird told me that you are very handy with sheet metal . So why not buy the weaco and make yourself a new metal casing out of stainless ?

There all the same crap . I must admit i love the outer case of the engel but am happy with my weaco's operation.

We wanted to buy a small fridge, about 13 to 15 lt just to keep vegies in. Weaco have one for about $199 but it is not a compressor type. Have you looked at these? Anyone know anything about them?

Waeco thermolectric cooler starting at about $199 18lt use between 3-6 amps constantly however cool up to 30deg below ambient and no less than 1deg if you use this to keep things cold they work quite well escpecilly in aircon vehicle but will not cool hot things down quickly like a compressor fridge, not bad value for money
Derraux

I have a 15 litre plastic body Engel. Bought it in1985 for $550. It has done many offroad trips and has taken a real hammering. The plastic body has broken on ocassions and I have glued it back together again. The power plug broke but I rerouted that through a vent. The motor keeps on working and it still freezes when required. It has never been serviced or taken to a fridgie for repairs. These days it lives in the X Trail and is used when we go shopping.

So Wolfie, bite the bullet and buy one(I think they have steel bodies now) and buy a fridge jacket as well. You get what you pay for and the small Engel will serve you well.

I bought a weaco tropicool classic 30 something litres and it works on that peltzier principal. It is supposed to cool up to 30 degrees below ambient.
Without the aid of a frozen bottle of water and the drinks already cooled it is as usefull as tits on a bull.I thought it would be great for a work eskie as I work out of a vehicle. I even installed a seperate lighter plug straight of the battery. Keep it in the shade and with a prefrozen bottle of water it helped keep my lunch cool and my drinks moderately cool but if I was on one job all day it would flatten the battery in about 5 hours to such a state I couldn't start my work van( automatic gearbox too).

In my opinion a good eskie with ice will beat those Peltzier operated eskies any day.

just my opinion and in no way reflects the views of other people ;-)

Sparkie(IE not Y) ;-)

Well, I bought the Waeco today.

I really was in love with the robustness of the Engel, but like Eric pointed out, I'm a Sheetmetal dude, so I'll make a Stainless Steel Sleeve for it.

Thank you to all who replied.

Cheers

Bi Waeco'd Wolf.... or is that Bi Wolf? Never mind......