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Best Cool Box?
Anyone advise on the best coolbox for onsite for 3 days with no power?
Was going to use a leisure battery but alot of the cool boxes showing 3.5 amps so even a 100amp battery wont cut it unless cool boxes can really keep thing s cool for days.
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13th Aug 2018 1:12 pm
Narpy
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If you have the room, Coleman 70QT wins hands down.
Will keep ice for a full 5 days even in very hot weather. I can't recommend this highly enough.
They do a smaller version (50QT) which might also suffice.
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13th Aug 2018 4:04 pm
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Cheers Narpy top man
Just watched the review and although looking good for drinks as filled with ice will be wanting to store butter, milk and meats and not sure they will survive floating in watery ice?D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
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13th Aug 2018 5:37 pm
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Igloo MaxCold will give it a run for its money And when we brought ours it was on an offer at costco so £20 cheaper and free delivery==================================
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13th Aug 2018 6:12 pm
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Thanks for that.
Can you just use bags of ice or cool packs if we want to store milk and butter etc?D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
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13th Aug 2018 6:25 pm
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Yep we do either or, usually blocks, but ice works as well. Important to remember the more in it the the longer it will stay cool.==================================
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13th Aug 2018 6:59 pm
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A great tip is to freeze a couple of 2 litre bottles of water and put them in there.
They help keep the ambient temperature low and can be thawed out and drunk on long stays.
I use 6 freezer blocks and a couple of bags of ice to complement the frozen water bottles, works very well.
At this years RIAT, we still had ice on the Saturday after having arrived the previous Wednesday and it was heatwave conditions. Other campers were amazed we were still drinking very cold beers without an electrical hookup. Mods:
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13th Aug 2018 7:05 pm
Ceekay
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Brilliant thanks you two, now which one to buy … hmmmm D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
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13th Aug 2018 7:15 pm
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A great way to keep your stuff cold without power is the dometic 3 way fridge, it will run for 24 hrs on a gas canister. We’ve found it invaluable for camping, and you can fit a few beers in it.
13th Aug 2018 7:28 pm
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14th Aug 2018 9:52 am
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My bro in law took one of those Honda silent generators.... kept the electric cool box going.... and the lights... and all the kids Ipad/iPhone chargers going...
Me and swmbo used my makita site radio usb to charge our phones. I took 7 batteries and used 4 all week Jarrod
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Igloo are brilliant and have the small hatch in the lid so you let minimum warm air in when reaching for a cold one.Club Exped trailer
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14th Aug 2018 10:27 am
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Have got a big Igloo Maxcold cooler box around 80-100l.
Put 6 bags of ice, and a shed load of frozen meat in it on a Friday morning. It was for a big family BBQ in a field over a weekend. Weather wasnt super hot, early 20's. Opened sparingly and come Sunday lunch time, most of the remaining food was still frozen .MY07 Freelander2 SE Santorini Black - Gone
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14th Aug 2018 10:33 am
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pop the butter etc... in a water tight tupper ware box and let that float around in the water ice, pop it out, use nice dry butter, close it and lob it back in?XC90 T8 R Design Pro
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14th Aug 2018 11:00 am
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Cheers for all the info guys.
No elecric and no generators allowed on-site im afraid but all good ideas D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
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