Dometic Coolers

Truckstop 1500w inverter and Walmart dorm fridge. They sell the inverters at Walmart too.

 

I have alot to learn now. IF you are talking about a actual fridge for the truck that freezes meat... yum. Can any of you issue a brand, model number and cost? I want to spend some time googling.

We bought a basic refridgerator for the house, the kind that had a motor up top for the freezer compartment. It had a slot in the back to allow that cold air to sink to the refrigerated part for milk and such.

The mystery I (I know nothing about refrigeration except a museum demonstration of a hand crank to compress freon in two coils. One got hot and the other got cold like it's supposed to as it circulated. I need to do some learning.

Anyway the first day we had it shipped, arrived and delivered to the house kitchen, it was 77 degrees. 40% humidity as we loaded the thing with food. Old fridge got hauled away. It was a energy star promotion that year around 2011 I think. To dispose of old obsolete electrical appliances for energy star efficient ones to reduce the electric drain on our State Grid.

Two hours later a storm front blew though. Humidity shot up to 85%, temps went to 90 and then the rains came dropping it to 62 for about a half hour then back to around 72 after the rains passed by.

The fridge burned up and quit working then and there. The air got sopping wet with the storm that passed through then cooled down. The fridge started coughing I mean literally coughing. That scared us. We unplugged it. rounded up a neighbor, loaded it in the truck and hustled to Lowes. which had that 770 dollar fridge under a short 30 day return no questions warrantry. We delivered it to Lowes then took the money store credit for roughly that amount and bought a samsung two motor fridge for the kitchen.

Figures two motors in a very powerful large package.

As luck would have it we lost our AC unit which had been operating since 1972 at 4 SEER. vs a 110 degree summer day that week. The house went up to 121 and stayed there with no cooling going on at all.

The Fridge did very good with it;'s two motors inside of it it worked really hard in that 121 inside our home for a few days it took to replace the entire Heat pump with a 16 seer, three ton unit (House only need 1.5 ton but we doubled it and quadrupled the SEER capacity.

In 4 hours it cooled from 121 to 72. Then on it would whisper on for 10 minutes to get 78 back to 72

Our power bill in terms of Kilowatt was 2000 per month with the old pump. And rising each month until the old heat cooling pump finally burned up.

The new pump which was a massive item brought our Kilowatt consumption to 250 watts total for 31 days in the dead of summer of July. The new system literally whispered about 10 minutes every hour and change. In winter it worked a little bit harder and by then we had 4 foot of insulation up there in additon to triple pane 750 windows, new insulated doors and so forth.

Anyway, now that got taken care of the ice box situation for the house., We had alot to learn and fast.

I should call back east and see about those 4 cans of auto AC freon I purchased the last month it was availible for retail sale. I wonder if it would be worth any money, fixing to find out.

 

That's because of the limitations of a thermoelectric cooler versus a refrigerator with an actual compressor system that their more expensive CF (cool freeze) line has.

The CF model coolers are great, and worth the extra cost. I bought a CF-18, which is a little larger than an igloo playmate cooler. I'm only out 3-5 days at a time so only need storage for some drinks, a pint of milk, and cold cuts/sandwich fixings. Easy to carry in and out of the truck when parking at the home terminal. The CF coolers will cool down to zero if you wanted to store frozen. Although they are single temp, so fresh or frozen unless you get two of them.

It worked so well, I bought a second one for my son to use in his truck. The first one has been in use just over two years and the second right at two years. Both still work like new.