Gone are those dark days when you could only consume both cold and hot, beans and rice without a portable car fridge on your camping trip. Portable car refrigerators are perfect for outdoor use, whether you're camping in a tent or needing an extra cool place for your food in a caravan.

A portable refrigerator is compact and lightweight. Your food fits easily inside and some models even include a freezer. It is possible to get a model that can be charged by plugging into any outlet, including 12 volts. A 12 volt DC outlet is the type of outlet you can find in your car or use to power the electronics in your boat or caravan.

Ideally, people want equipment that is lightweight and easy to carry when camping. A refrigerator is certainly no exception to this equipment, especially if you do not have a permanent refrigerator installed in your vehicle. Portable refrigerators can provide you with flexibility while traveling, keeping your food fresh until you consume it. If you're tent camping or have a caravan without a refrigerator, a portable tool refrigerator is a must-have for camping with perishable food supplies. In addition, a freezer compartment eliminates the need to constantly renew ice. If your vehicle or caravan already has one built-in refrigerator, a mobile portable car refrigerator will still serve a purpose. For example, you can take it on day trips. If you have a portable 12V refrigerator, you can plug it into your car wherever you are. With this option, it's easy to eat healthier meals while keeping your eating out costs low.

Energy Consumption of Portable Vehicle Refrigerators

Imagine a boiling kettle. A kettle adds heat energy to water and eventually turns liquid water into a gas: steam. The refrigerant used in refrigerators is another chemical that is liquid at very cold temperatures and a gas at room temperature.

All of this refrigerant is stored in a system of pipes and tubes. At the center of this cycle is something called a compressor. The compressor pressurizes the gas until it becomes liquid. The liquid refrigerant then leaves the compressor into the evaporator tube. This evaporator is located inside the walls of your refrigerator. Just as water absorbs heat from the kettle when it boils, the cooler absorbs all the heat from your refrigerator when it turns back to gas. The heated refrigerant then flows down the evaporator tubes to the condenser, where it waits to be recompressed by the compressor.

This is the basic working principle of the refrigerator in your home. But all these refrigerators work with 120V alternating current. Compressors require a lot of energy to operate. If you try to run it directly from your car battery with a small inverter, your battery will run out in a few minutes. So, as a manufacturer of portable car refrigerators, we had to be really creative when designing a cooler that could consume low voltage DC power.

Thanks to our state-of-the-art products and designs, you don't have to spend time doing any wiring and installing them. Throw your portable car refrigerator in your travel and camping vehicle, plug it into a standard 12V outlet and forget about it. However, there are important factors such as battery protection that you should double-check before doing so. Happily, with Fridgers protection systems, it detects and prevents possible fault situations without you having to think and check.



Fridgers 12V/24V Portable Car Refrigerators

If you want your food to stay fresh for 24 hours or more, you want a tool that really works. When set up correctly, a quality portable car refrigerator will work just as well as the ones you have in your home.

The main advantage of Fridgers refrigerators is efficiency. They typically consume about 10 amp hours per day on a 12V system. This means a standard cycle battery can keep this running for five days. If you have a caravan with a solar system, you can run it indefinitely and be completely off the grid.

What makes these refrigerators unique is that they use special compressors designed to operate from zero to 12V DC electricity. So they use less power and are well insulated to keep the cold in. It is in the undisputed benefit of the consumer to obtain a portable car refrigerator from manufacturers who have achieved the highest standards in production and materials, have been producing refrigerators for a long time and using quality compressors.

Compare that to your typical mini fridge, which draws about 20 amps at 12V more or less continuously. This is not energy efficient at all. When the refrigerators start up, a large current starts as the compressor starts to spin and compress the refrigerant to the cooling temperature. In fact, it uses more power during the first 10 seconds of start-up than the next 10 minutes of run time. So the first thing that should not be overlooked is insulation. In other words, if the refrigerator is constantly warming up, opening, closing and then opening again, it means that it has failed in terms of efficiency and energy consumption. In some cases, although it has a lot to do with insulation, a portable car refrigerator uses almost the same amount of power as a full-size home refrigerator. That's why it makes sense to purchase a portable car refrigerator from a manufacturer that aims to excel in insulation and efficiency.

Here's how we address this power issue: Insulation first. Insulation makes the cooler bulky, costs more to cool, and gives you less space. But it stays cold for a long time and is very energy efficient. Thus, the compressor of the portable car refrigerator only comes on occasionally, and this insulation ensures that the compressor does not run most of the time. But with a 12 degree temperature fluctuation, your food won't stay fresh for long, so it's important for refrigerator manufacturers to balance power consumption with functionality.

You can run a Fridgers refrigerator for five days without recharging with a single deep cycle battery. If you want it to last longer, you can support your mobile refrigerator with a 50W solar panel and solar energy connection, or you can drive your car for 10 minutes and charge it enough to run the refrigerator all day. No other refrigerator on the market comes close to this efficiency, with a design that clearly demonstrates that you get your money's worth. Thanks to its top-opening lid, it keeps the cold air inside and causes less energy consumption. When you open the door of a standard front-facing refrigerator, all the cold air comes out and the compressor should run. When you open this, the cold stays inside.

A portable vehicle refrigerator is the best option for anyone who needs a long-term and mobile food storage solution. Trailers, trucks, buses, caravans, yachts or a popular choice among camping enthusiasts. Portable vehicle refrigerators can also be found in off-grid applications with solar energy installations.

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