At 09:15 PM 6/30/2009, Paul Chubbuck wrote: >Does anyone on the list have experience with those Coleman DC coolers? Me. >It is said to cool down 40 degrees below ambient. On a good day, with your mouth held just right...nah. 35 maybe? It performs noticeably better if you use a much higher-capacity fan and open things out to get some serious airflow across the external heat exchanger. I left the original motor just powering the internal fan. > Do you think it is as well >insulated as a normal ice chest? I think likely as good as a regular one. > It would be great on travel days, but much >of the time when I'm camping, I won't be running the engine, or have >sufficient battery power to keep it plugged in. Do you think it would >continue to keep things cool if there was ice in it? I've got (I think) an Igloo I could compare it with -- chunk of ice in each and see how it keeps. Give me a few days.
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