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Quote: Originally posted by 2gocampin on 10/5/2010

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Hi opticalflat,

Not sure why you got the aggressive replies to what was a simple question  some people cant help it I guess.

Anyway, table top fridges, we have recently gone this route having tried various other 2 and 3 way units and we only have one negative point worth making....compressor rattle !!!! drives me mad in the back of the car during the journey. The unit clatters with even the slightest of bumps and I cant see any way of silencing it so it now gets packed amongst the soft items in an attempt to muffle the clonk clonk clonk.

Apart from that much better in every respect to the top loading 3 way units in our opinion. 

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Quote: Originally posted by 2gocampin on 10/5/2010

Hi opticalflat,

Not sure why you got the aggressive replies to what was a simple question  some people cant help it I guess.

Anyway, table top fridges, we have recently gone this route having tried various other 2 and 3 way units and we only have one negative point worth making....compressor rattle !!!! drives me mad in the back of the car during the journey. The unit clatters with even the slightest of bumps and I cant see any way of silencing it so it now gets packed amongst the soft items in an attempt to muffle the clonk clonk clonk.

Apart from that much better in every respect to the top loading 3 way units in our opinion. 

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When its running its virtually silent, its when its in the back of the car on route to the site.

The round cylinder at the back of the fridge must have something floating inside it as the clonk comes from within so no matter how well its packed or supported it makes no difference. Packing it amongst the sleeping bags and other soft items does help to reduce the annoying clonking though.

As far as on site goes, we keep ours in the main living area of the tent on a small table as I wouldn't want to expose the electrics to the weather outside the tent. We have used ours from early and very chilly March trips, didn't really need it to be honest !!, through into the dizzy highs of our English summers ha ha and its never given us any problems to date.

Oh and it wasn't you I was having a dig at wongers, as you rightly say this has been well covered in past threads. 

hi 2gocamping

it was the op who had a small dig about me suggesting looking at old posts not you but thanks for your comment.

We switched from a coolbox to a table top fridge and used it for the first time on our last trip, see below.

I much prefer it, it also has a little mini freezer which was handy and it made no noise at all.  It is fairly big so obviously transporting it might be an issue for some. 

I would recommend their use.

Quote: Originally posted by wongers on 09/5/2010

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this has been asked many times have a look at old postings.

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