ARB / Dometic Mobile Refrigerator Experience

[Area 51]

ARB / Dometic Mobile Refrigerator Experience​

I am thinking about loosing one of the rear seats and installing an electric fridge.
What I cannot find is time to cooling when starting from zero power.
So if the cruiser is in the barn on a summer day, heat soaked to about 80-90 deg F. I turn on the Cruiser and power up the fridge how long before it stabilizes at the set temp?
Thx

 

[Nuke]

I think this would depend on the fridge make/model, and method of refrigeration. Sme employ compressors, other are (slower) thermoelectric.

 

[sjl136]

ARB / Dometic Mobile Refrigerator Experience​

I am thinking about loosing one of the rear seats and installing an electric fridge.
What I cannot find is time to cooling when starting from zero power.
So if the cruiser is in the barn on a summer day, heat soaked to about 80-90 deg F. I turn on the Cruiser and power up the fridge how long before it stabilizes at the set temp?
Thx

I recommend that you turn the fridge/ freezer on and fill it as much as you can with items that are already cold if you can. Maybe that doesn’t fit your use case but you’ll find that’s the recommended approach from the big brands. Fridge/ freezers are inefficient at cooling an empty space, they are designed to be used with stuff in them. If I’m leaving the next morning or in a few hours, I run an extension cord through a window and run the fridge on 110V AC with the fridge already filled with food and drink and then switch to portable battery power when it’s time to depart with that battery plugged into the LC 2400W outlet. I like my ARB 37qt and find the app useful. I have a National Luna dual zone on order but it won’t arrive for a few months but nothing but good things after 6 years with the ARB.

 

[EOD Guy]

I have the EcoFlow, sorry to say I've never timed it, but ....... Turn on the EcoFlow, temp on one side set to 32 degrees the other side at 45 degrees. Put frozen items in straight from the freezer/fridge 2.5 hr to my destination....... Frozen things are still solidly frozen and the cold things are still cold.