Date:         Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:02:28 -0400
Reply-To:     "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
Subject:      Re: new non-westy fridge
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Don't throw too much money at one of these things.

My father-in-law (a serious "Mr. Gadget" guy) bought the same thing last
year, and it turned out to be extremely lame. The 44* temp drop is under
perfect conditions. Further, in the 95 - 44 = 61. Most ice-chests can do
WAY better than that (my FIL is back to using a Styrofoam cooler)

I'll say this: In the summer, the food warmer part works great. In the
winter, the food cooler part is fantastic. Wheeee.

Developing business and guiding change since 1996,

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications
Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
Alliance: www.ntara.com
Phone: +1.919.658.1278


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of joseph Trussell
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:45 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: new non-westy fridge

Hi List,

Please excuse my ignorance on this, but I got one of these 12-volt
coolers
as a wedding present:

http://www.target.com/common/catalog/product.jhtml?prodid=9701&navAction
=jump&navCount=1

and I have a couple of questions about it before I go running off to the
mountains with it.  It runs through the cigarette lighter, so is it
going to
suck a ton of power if I keep it going when I go camping?

Should I look into setting up an additional battery and run it, as well
as
other accessories that I plan on adding like lighting and a possible
inverter for a laptop, directly from the addtional battery?

I've looked in the archives and know that there has been much discussion
of
the second battery, but not much talk about the real neccessity of
installing one.

Thanks in advance,
joe t.



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