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27/6/2017 at 2:49pm
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Cool-boxes are notoriously heavy on battery power. Even a large leisure battery will be completely flattened in a matter of hours by many cool-boxes. Charging phones on the other hand uses next to no power, so a small leisure battery or car battery would be more than adequate for that. I would be inclined to use a non-electric cool-box with ice-packs, and get them re-frozen locally if possible.
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27/6/2017 at 3:05pm
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Charge phones from a powerpack or via the car on days out. I agree with Colin regarding the coolbox, there's no other way to power them really. Without EHU you're looking at either cheapie and ice packs (or, do you have one of those dual-lid cool boxes, where you can use either 12v or a standard lid?), or a more advanced passive cooler (such as Icey-Tek), or a 3-way fridge (run on gas).
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01/7/2017 at 8:36am
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rachel - if your going away for just a weekend - heres something that will be perfect for you!.
get a 2Litre bottle of water and freeze it solid at home in your freezer.
put that into your cool box along with your food and drinks that you have already pre- chilled. - do not put warm / room temperature food into the coolbox - as that warms it up.
you ll find that the 2L bottle of solid ice will keep the inside of your coolbox cold easily for a weekend just so long as your not going in and out of it every 10 minutes.
it works perfect for keeping milk, bacon some drinks etc and that kind of thing nicely chilled for the weekend without worrying about ehu / power.
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13/7/2017 at 1:29pm
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Quote: Originally posted by osvic on 13/7/2017
i was given some advice to take frozen food that will gradually defrost? anyone tried this I'm thinking of doing this for our first trip.
I do this but I cook the food before freezing it then just have to warm it up before eating it, much easier when camping. It also means that even if it thaws out it will keep for a few days.
I cook and freeze sausages etc. for breakfasts and curries, mince, bolognese etc. for main meals.
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15/7/2017 at 6:38pm
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Frozen water and plan your food , day one top of box day 2 freeze and put at bottom or what we do is take 2 cool boxes freeze every thing in one of them , and but a bottle of frozen water in each box
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15/7/2017 at 10:14pm
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get a igloo maxicool box £60-£80 ish
and grab a bag of ice a day from the supermarket £1 a bag
it will take years of camping to offset solar panels / leisure batteries
or buy a 3 way fridge and run it on gas (outside the tent)
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