Portable fridges

Both good fridges , but the main compressor component of Evakool doesn't come from Australia anyway!

Robin Miller

We have had an Evacool 40 odd for some 12 months, picked it up 2nd hand for nicks as 240 V element was buggered. I replaced for 90 odd bucks and has been a great unit.

My parents have had an Engel for quite some time and they have been more than happy with it.

I amnot certain what the features of the Engel that you are looking at are but for us at least we like the 3 way feature of the Evacool since we don't often use powered sites & I do not have a dual battery setup nor other fancy systems...as yet at least.

Mick,
DUCK........your about to get bombarded with about a million threads. This is a huge subject that has been pawed over many many times on this forum.

I like my Engel.

Toytruck

Have a look at the trailblaza. It is Australian made. It is very well constructed - made from marine grade aluminium.

I have had one for years and am extremely happy with it.

Hi there Mick as toytruck has said there is an absolute heap in the archives on this one. I have 50L waeco and runs 24/7 and has been used as a freezer at minus 16 in the back of the lux and hasnt missed a beat. Everyone to there own, is it as good an an engel, everkool who knows and I dont care. As long as it does the job I bought if for I am happy. Will it last as long as an engel time will tell. Just my opinion. Regards Steve M

Aussie made - Bushman in Melbourne. I personally have an.......

Leroy

look at the explorer fridge aussy made in maryborough all marine grade alluminium with a danfoss compressor,they also have a seperate freezer compartment to the fridge both have their own thermostats, no more unloading all the frige to get at the frozen gear on the bottom thus saving power by not loosing all the cold air, have had mine fore more than 8 yrs running constantly on 240 and 12 volt expensive to buy but value for money Col

The Engel brand has been proven over many years, cannot buy better, some of the others are ok.

Here is a sneak peak of the new SIDEWINDER 40-10

Same running gear as the Bushman.

Mick

We picked up aBbushman from Sydney show last April.

It is really great.We have the collar and lids that make it a 42ltr or 52 ltrs.

The 2v0v attachment has a built in fan.

We (read wife) mainly use it as a freezer and can't believe how little power it uses on a trip.

Would highly recommend.

For me the chescold 3 way rc 1180 is the go. No need to buy a wind farm solar power coal fired or nuclear power station to run it.

Wire it properly on 12 v and no problems . The best most sensible fridge for camping .

Hi 75troopy

I already own the finch fridge and only last friday decided to buy the rc 1180. Have been very pleased with the finch fridge but wanted to spoil myself . Today in Perth the forecast temperature was 36 degrees so decided to do some testing on the fridge to see if it is O.K.

I too googled to try and find something about what kind of performance I should expect from the fridge. This way I could compare to check I haven't got a dud etc. I couldn't find what I was looking for so set up the fridge in the garage and put in my two way in/out digital thermometer to try and get some readings.

I did have the fridge on overnight then by the time I got to the garage and set up the gas bottle and thermometer the temperature inside the freezer bit was -6.9 and the outside temperature was 32.2 deg.

Just now a good 3-4 hours at 2.06pm the outside temp according to my thermometer was 36.3deg and inside the freezer bit of the rc-1180 it was minus 10.9deg. As it is so hot well we dont get much hotter here in Perth I seem to think that that sort of performance seems o.k. Intend to ring up a repairer over here just to check as I have know idea if that is good bad or otherwise.

That is 47.2 below ambient. Cheers and good luck with whatever you decide.