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Subject Topic: ICEY TEK coolbox? Post Reply Post New Topic
16/6/2012 at 1:33pm
 Location: South Wales
 Outfit: Sunncamp Alana 700. Vango Lumen 500
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   Have been looking at these.  http://www.coolboxesuk.co.uk/shop-online/all/cube-boxes/25l-cube-box.html

Has anyone got one? Are they better/worse/no different to the plug in cool boxes?

 

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16/6/2012 at 2:53pm
 Location: Norwich
 Outfit: Citroen Relay Campervan
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For that money they should be fantastic

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16/6/2012 at 3:43pm
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 Outfit: 2010 Trigano Olympe GL
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Unless you have a proper fridge then it is all about insulation and keeping the ambient temps down.

If you wern't worried about security then putting the coolbox outside shaded by a tarp is probably the best to keep the outside temps down. In a tent these can rise rapidly.

On the insulation side (which I guess is what you are paying for the box you have shown) then wraping with additional polysetenre or foil backed insultation will help a lot.

When we had a conventional tent we used a thermoelectric cooler. It was OK but saps the battery and is not particulaly effcient. So we bulk cooked certain foods, chilli, curry etc. and freeze them in to the plastic take away boxs and added and swaped out ice packs. That worked pretty well

Thanks to ebay (but still very expensive) we now have a 12/240V compressor coolbox. dead quite, very efficent, will freeze to -18. And have not looked back. This allows us longer camps as we now have a trailer tent. Means we can chill drinks quickly plus the odd bottle of wine.



16/6/2012 at 6:47pm
 Location: Hertfordshire
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Hi, a quick use of the search facility will find past threads.

Also see here

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16/6/2012 at 6:50pm
 Location: royton oldham
 Outfit: marechal megaloft vango signiture 700
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they are fantastic ,fill it with bags of ice for about 4 days before you go away,dont open lid ...when you go away all the ice can be thrown,and your icey tek will stay very cold for at least a week ,and inbetween or after a week you can always put a cou[ple of bags of ice on the bottom


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17/6/2012 at 11:44pm
 Location: dudley
 Outfit: kampa holkham 6 vango icarus 500
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hi,

expensive but very good, we have the 25 ltr one which is a little small, go for the 40ltr and you will not be disapointed

biggest problem we have found is getting your ice packs stolen!!




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