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Hi,

I was thinking of buying one of these mini coolers just to put milk, cheese & butter in (there's one in Woolworths for £20). We have a 12v (85amp) leisure battery, does any one know what sort of life expectancy it will have running one of these. 

I'd love to get a 3 way fridge but will wait until next year as I think our last camping trip will be at the end of this month.

Your advice is greatly appreciated

Philippa

The blue face was due to it being a new topic and not having any replies at that time!

The coolers are very good - an remarkably efficient given the right circumstances.  They should be plugged into the car regularly, I doubt the battery would last any great length of time - probably not more than a weekend because there's a fan running to keep the air exchange at the right temp. - I think!

As said before the cooler would soon drain the battery.

Do you have electric hook up? If yes you can purchase a mains adapter that the 12 volt on the cooler plugs into and then you can run it off mains whilst camping.

The coolers do a good job keeping things fresh. We have just recently upgraded and I now have a fridge in my cruiser but we still use the cooler to keep the beer chilled!!

Many thanks for your replies.......

No we don't have a hook up....yet! I had a feeling that the battery wouldn't last very long. It seems that hook up or 3 way fridge is the way to go.

Cheers

Phil

Hi Philippa

We have a cooler box, which we run of a leisure battery. We found without electric hook-up that the battery ran flat very quickly, but we have found a solar panel which trickle charges the leisure battery the same as a battery charger.

Graham + Lin