I'm in the market for an iceless cooler and a small wattage coffee maker to save some $$$ clams on the road.
Any recommendations ? ... or better yet, makers / models to avoid?
thanks in advance for any help....
ps ... I have a very small inverter, so I need to keep things at the 12V level for now...
grazie
Iceless Cooler and Coffee Maker - 12V
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by tderrick, Apr 20, 2015.
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http://koolatrononline.stores.yahoo.net/koolatron-p27-voyager.html
This is what it been using. Great, over a year and haven't fail yet. For coffee I just grab some hot water from the ts.....I'm not sure how reliable is the 12v coffee makertderrick Thanks this. -
I have the igloo cooler, it works great.
Have not find a 12v coffee maker I liked.
Tried a few, but all are way to slow.
I have a 1000w inverter. 110 coffee maker and microwave.tderrick Thanks this. -
I've used an Igloo coolor(40qt) for years and the only problem is that the plug can get so hot it melts. I hard wired it into the fusebox and no more problems. I mostly local now so I now only have a small one, 12qt I think, still Igloo and no plug problems. Take it home every night and plug it in a 12v power supply to keep my stuff cold. As for 12v coffee pots. I bought one years ago and by the time it got done filling that litlle pot I didn't want coffee anymore. Had to have taken at least 45 minutes. maybe they are better now.
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12 volts is time consuming. Takes me half hour to heat up water for noodles.
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Not cheap but the Dometic CoolFreeze 12v fridge/freezers are awesome. They can operate as a fridge or freezer if you want. When I was a company driver for SNI, I used it for a fridge, and since the KW I bought has a fridge built in, now I use it as a freezer to keep frozen meals in. Much more efficient than the thermoelectric coolers, and will keep stuff cold even in a hot cab where the cheaper coolers won't. They have a small compressor just like the real thing and use very little energy. SNI was pretty bad about their no-idling policy so idling to charge the batteries was pretty much out of the picture. This thing never gave me any issues, I could even leave it turned on when I was at home for 5 days and it wouldn't set off the low-voltage cutoff.
I have this smaller model:
http://www.adventurerv.net/dometic-coolfreeze-portable-refrigerator-freezer-cf25-cf025dc-p-1227.html
As for a coffee maker, you may not be able to use a 120v model unless you have a larger inverter. When you say you have a "very small" inverter, how small are we talking? -
Do yourself a favor and get a French press. Less than $15 at Wally. Figure out a way to make hot water. I used a camp stove before I got with an apu outfit. Be careful of the iceless cooler. It'll freeze stuff close to the cooling element.
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as for the inverter, I just picked up a 150 watter to charge my PC to get started. I've only been driving
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That French Press sounds awesome...... now, for the hot water....
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