"JJS" jschneider@remove socks cebridge.net wrote in message
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"Jack Allison" wrote in message
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While cruising through Wal-Mart this evening, I saw a couple of those 12
volt electric coolers designed for use in
a car and I started wondering if anyone has used one in your plane? If
so, how good/bad did it work? Any issues
with the plane's electrical system? Was it worth not having to deal
with ice?

We bought one before we took a camping trip to Colorado last August.
Don't waste your money. We returned ours. It
was a Coleman. They recommended that you do not use ice in it and the 12V
cooling was pitiful.

I have one also. I think the specs are that it will keep the insides approx
20 degrees F cooler than the outside. We used it on a summer road trip. OAT
was about 100F so inside of the cooler was 80F. Took several hours to reach
that level. Inside the car with A/C on it would keep butter from melting but
that was about it.

Howard