Date:         Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:35:23 -0700
Reply-To:     Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: DC refrigerator options
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A friend of mine has an Engle reefer and is very happy with it. Runs it
off a battery bank of 2-6v Trojans under the rear bench and a 110 watt
solar PV panel. Nice thing about a portable unit like that as opposed
to a Norcold is that you can easily move it to a boat, home or another
vehicle. Also, when not camping it can be pulled out of the van for
more room and less weight to carry around. The space where the Dometic
reefer resided could be used as additional storage. Only downside I see
besides being expensive (but so is a Norcold) is that you can't have a
freezer and reefer at the same time. It is one or the other. I just
read a review for the big 64qt model from a guy who drove down to
Florida in the heat of summer with a load of frozen food and then back
north with a fresh load of fish he had caught and froze in the Engle.
He claimed the average temp was 15F!!! At night he would move the
reefer into the motel room to run it off of 120AC so as to not deplete
his starting battery. Being a top loader keeps the cold inside, too.

Anybody else got some experience with an Engle or other decent portable
reefer?

Keith O



On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:00:27 -0600
> From:    Paul Chubbuck <paul@TAKINGFLIGHT.NET>
> Subject: DC refrigerator options
>
> Have any of you purchased the Engle DC refrigerator GoWesty is
> offering as a
> Dometic replacement?  It doesn't fit in the Dometic cabinet space, but
> they
> make it sound pretty good otherwise.  They claim it is quieter than the
> Norcold DC 0040.
>
> Paul