Evakool Esky and Waeko cf25

Hi UFC,
I have an engel 40l sitting on the back of the ute. It has been there for the past 4 years. It has been on for 24hrs a day and has never missed a beat. It is now bolted down to the Nav and also padlocked to the rear backing plate.
As for using it when on a long journey, I keep it on freeze. Have 4 Batteries to power it if I am not moving for a week.
Also take an esky, have 6, 2 litre milk containers filled with water. I keep 3 in the freezer and 3 in the esky. They last 3+ days in the esky but it usually takes 2 to 3 days to refreeze the others. Next trip I think I will swap them over daily as it will be more efficient.

I did that in the camper trailer. My freezer was an evakool and I used 6 large freezer blocks. Alternated them every day before they defrosted entirely. Did the kimberlys and never had a problem keeping the esky cold. The 25litre wouldn't have much capacity left after holding the big freezer blocks though.

Sorta had that idea here UFC , got CF25 and fitted it between front seats of Patrol which makes for a very effective use of space and allows for sleeping from rear seats forward, as we have wagon not ute.

The CF25 has better cooling capacity than some bigger fridges in this mode because it has same compressor as most but less surface area.

Worked with our high performance esky, it takes about 1/2 of a fridges capacity
to make enough ice to cool it, hence fridge is on more than off, running
at average consumption of 1.8 amps/hr.

However - Not into taking anything that spoils easily like meat and when
really thought about it have very little need to actually freeze anything.
Things like milk etc, find it better to have just one opened long life
carton at a time and its in fridge with others in boxes etc.

So with careful packing and doing things like just keeping enough drinks
etc for a day at a time in CF25 we settled into a routine of not needing to
take esky as well as a fridge and are quite happy, to the extent that
CF25 is usually not quite full.

Our CF25 is now only set on 3 which means it is just enough to make few ice
crystals in coke etc if left in all day, and runs an average of 0.9 amps/hour.

With doing a few things along this line have negated the need for dual batteries etc
and overall camping is less cluttered and less hassle.

Robin Miller

Well went into a shop today that sells waeco and took a few out and tried them in the behind the seat my ute. I think the cf 35 or cf 40 will be the go they fitted it really good. Had more room back there then I thought. And I should be able to freeze 3 2lt milk containers for my esky and still have room for other stuff as well.