Space issues for trip around Oz

Hi ob.

Thanks for the reply. We have considered leaving him at home but don't have anyone that is able to care for him and leaving him in a kennel for four months would be too cruel.
We too just had to put our other dog to sleep just this past November which is one of the reasons why we have decided to take him. Originally we were happy to leave the two of them together with the house sitter because atleast they had each other.
I really don't know what else to do, he just lost his best mate in November and now we're going to leave him with a stranger for four months? Not really fair on the little fella.

Thanks again ob.

Lyndsey

Hi Disco,

Woops !!! didn't even realise I did it. Will be more careful next time. :)

Lyndsey.

Hi Nathan & Lyndsey,

I 2nd a 2 zone but I hooked up a computer fan (12v) just under the 2 zone and it improved the performance.

The 2 zone will work as is but moving the air around allowed me to turn the dial back about 1 which would have to save one battery power.

cheers Wilko

Wilko

Can you give me more details about the 12V fan.

Thanks Wato

Hi Wato,

I got a computor cooling fan (which are available from nearly all computor shops) and mounted it under the 2 zone basket.

It basically moves the air from the engel into the 2 zone. Mine blows the air in but it would prob work ok to suck the air out too.

I wired it up to the engels power wire (so that it would come on when the Engel was on) .

I was running my engel on 5 to get the 2 zone cool enough(on really hot days), now I can run it on 3 1/2 or 4 and get the same temp.

I think there are threads on here that explains it better then me.

Cheers Wilko

Hi there. For what its worth, I went the other way, and have a sheet of marine ply in the bottom of the upper basket of the TwoZone to reduce the air circulation. This way, we have frozen food in the bottom (around minus 14 degrees or lower), and cold food in the top (around 4 or 5 degrees). But at ambient over 40, this requires the Engel to be set fairly high, say 5 as Wilko says.
But surely with a fan the temperature would tend to equalise between top and bottom???? Any comments??

Hi Chris,

My two zone would sit at around the 1-3c and the engel would sit around minus 6-8c.

Cheers Wilko

We have just spent 13 months traveling around australia. The only trouble we had was in Darwin NT. They are definitely anti dogs in fact even their tourist bureau was anti good service. Because I only wanted info they were quite rude to us.
I suppose if we were wanting to take a tour they would have been more friendly. You cannot take dogs into any national parks.

Depending on where you are going. Check the info on the caravan parks and forget all Big 4 parks as they do not take dogs.

There is a dog friendly book that you can buy and it states all the parks where you can take a dog. We had no trouble at all as I said except darwin although the tumbling waters caravan park was really brilliant. It is about 20+ k's out of darwin.
We have a blue heeler and did a lot of free camping everywhere. In fact we had more trouble with people with generators. We would park way out away from the main camp and someone would always park right on our doorstep and then start up the generator. We were solar powered and avoided upsetting anyone that way. It is a great option to have solar power. We could camp out for more than a week at a time.
So I suggest you take your mate with you. He will apreciate it rather than left with strangers, some pets willl not eat for several days as they fret. Good luck and have a great trip.

I forgot to mention that we did exactly what you are thinking of on our recent Outback trip, Engel as the fridge & a Waeco as a smaller (31L) freezer.
Came home with the Engel as fridge & the Waeco as a dirty laundry hamper, it lasted about 10 days!