AlpicoolC20 portable compressor fridge freezer 21Quart(20Liter) for car and home - 12V/24V DC and 110V AC

EDIT 5 WEEKS AFTER PURCHASE: Still haven't had a reply from customer service. :/EDIT, DAY 10: STILL NO RESPONSE FROM CUSTOMER SERVICE!EDIT, DAY 4: SENT TO CUSTOMER SERVICE YESTERDAY. NO REPLY! "We need guidance on how to use this as a freezer while it's plugged into the wall at home, please.#1. It seems unclear as to what MODE it should be when plugged into the wall at home.#2. It's been plugged in and set to -4°F for 3 days and, while it's keeping things cold, nothing is FROZEN. (We have planned to use it to keep ice packs frozen, so it's filled with ice packs.)#3. The booklet says to put it at -14°F for ice cream. However, our unit will not go below -4°F.Could you please educate us on how to use it as a freezer, at home, plugged into the wall with the provided cord?Thank you!"(WILL UPDATE WITH RESPONSE IF RECEIVED)EDIT, DAY 3: It's been set at -4°F for 3 days, filled with ice gel packs that we know get hard when frozen, and they're still liquid. Very very cold, but still soft. I emailed the company for advice. Will update.Original post: I have no regrets on day one. Immediately after plugging to AC indoor power, it started getting cold, but you can just BARELY hear it! It's a fan noise, whisper quiet. If I had to sleep in close quarters with it, it would not disturb my sleep or peace.Got this to keep 12 of the LARGE SIZE COOLER SHOCK PREMIUM ICE PACKS (available at Amazon) frozen in order to rotate out to a plain ice chest or other 12v refrigerator (depending on what we get; we're not there yet) OR even to keep our big freezer in the sticks-n-bricks as backup in case of SHTF. We will rotate in the spent ones from our ice chest or fridge into the Alpicool to re-freeze at 0°F (having put the other 6, FROZEN ones in the ice chest for the next night. Saw this general technique on Lulu's Way YouTube channel and it seems to work amazingly, though she used hard ice "bricks" and I'm trying these as they say they're "colder and lighter than ice." (Not cheap, but it's a one-time investment for a system we think will last longer term. Hope!)If anyone needs this info, this Alpicool chest holds 6 LARGE laid flat and stacked horizontally inside the freezer. I bought 12 so I can always have 6 being frozen and 6 more at hand to keep the ice chest cold without getting soupy with ice water. If we have any problems I'll let ya know. But so far we are really grateful we were able to grab one.Must-have for any prepper or no_mad!

It is awesome. I have owned quite a few plug in coolers over many years [i am old] and this is the best one ever.because it is actually a freezer. nuts right? i didn’t believe it either.but its true.but there is a catch - yes it really will get as cold as it says it will, but goes without saying that it must be plugged in long enough to get there. in your house with included A/C transformer - it def will.i my roadtrips, i put it on freeze temps, and if your driving 7-8 hours with it plugged in, its freezing temps for sure. ice forming on glass bottles kinda freezing.my car has no “always on” cigarette plugs, so i put in on freeze temps during the ride, and can leave it in the car overnight at a hotel and stuff is still cold the next morning. It says it has tech that monitors your car battery voltage and will turn off before draining your battery but dunno since my sportage has no key off hot sockets.love this freezer - errr- cooler lol. its not as big as the pics make it look, see my pics.valspeed? about 75 to 45 in about 35 mins.

Day 2, this cooler is perfect! Ice chips in my son's sodas, in Florida!! My son is a mail carrier, last summer was horrible. He delivers in a rural area stores are few and far between for some refreshment. Fountain drinks quickly turn into water in this heat. He was looking for something small to keep drinks cool but all of those other coolers only cool 20-30 degrees below ambient temp (usually in the 100's in Fl) those wouldn't work. This doesn't take up a lot of space in his van. This cooler is a game changer, I think everyone in Fl should have one. When a hurricane comes we WILL have ice cold drinks and cold food w/out having to hunt for ice. Will update if needed. Hopefully it outlasts the warranty.

Ok, I basically lived out of this thing for a couple of months doing some extended travel. I waited to write this review until I had really lived with it, and gotten to know it well.This thing has a lot to recommend it. Most importantly, it is a real fridge using the same compressor technology as your home fridge. The compressor makes it strong enough that it can even work as a freezer if you want it to. The compressor makes it very efficient, far better than those thermoelectric coolers, and it is fairly quiet in operation. It is not huge, but big enough to cover your basic needs. And it is an absolutely screaming bargain vs. similar units. It comes with an 110v converter so you can plug it into your car when on the road and then carry it into your hotel room and plug it into the wall all night.Here is the bad part: you absolutely need to buy a fridge thermometer and you need to spend some time playing with this thing before your trip to see how the temp you set correlates to the temp you actually want. Be patient. You will initially get frustrated, but you can get to a point where it will keep your food where you want it, without freezing it.See the machine doesn't actually ever know how cold the food inside it gets. Nor does it constantly blow cold air over your food with a fan like your fridge at home. It is a very simple system, with a single coil of coolant wrapped around the walls of the box. The coolant makes the wall of the cooler very cold. That cold wall makes the air and eventually your food cold. But stagnant air doesn't conduct temperature terribly efficiently, it is the basis of most insulation after all.Why does that matter? Because this design means that how the box is packed will alter where you need to set the temperature. At one extreme, if you pack the thing full of stuff at room temperature, stuff that is touching the walls, the warmth of that food will be conducted into the walls of the box, and from there into the coolant, telling the machine to run. On the opposite extreme, if you were to put a small glass of water in the middle of the box and leave the cooler otherwise largely empty, then the walls would still get cold and stay cold, but it would take forever to chill that glass of water indirectly through the air with no fan circulating the air around. So you turn the thermostat down a bit when the cooler is empty, and up a bit when it is full.After a little while, you get a sense of where you need to set it based on what you have in it and how full it is. But you absolutely have to have a fridge thermometer in it so you can understand what is actually happening inside the box, particularly when you are first learning how to use it.The other caution with this thing is that it is fairly heavy, even empty. And it is heavy in an uneven way, with the compressor and such all at one end, and your relatively light food at the other. While you certainly can lug it into a hotel room every night during extended road trips, I definitely got tired of doing that. And, just like any other compressor-based fridge, you can seriously damage it if you don't keep it basically upright all the time. Nobody tips over their cooler on purpose, but you want it to sit level, particularly when it is running. It tolerates the usual bumps in the road fine, but it is not at all excited about sitting on even a modest incline in operation (it will start to make unhappy noises, and my guess is that if you ignore those noises, it would eventually die). So think carefully about where you are planning to put it when it is running, whether there is sufficient air flow around that one end, etc., and realize that the back seat of your car is probably NOT level enough, because it is angled to be comfortable to people. Expect some fiddling to get the fridge level and stable will be needed before you depart.But overall, I really liked it, and it probably paid for itself inside of a month, allowing us to eat out less on the road, not to mention eating a lot more healthy than if we had to eat a bunch of fast food.This is a good choice for an off-grid system, a small RV, or a family taking an extended road trip that doesn't want to constantly buy ice. It is superior to one of those cheap thermoelectric coolers in virtually every way except weight.For a simple, weekend camping trip, stick with a traditional cooler that doesn't require power. But for extended trips, this thing is absolutely worth the higher up-front costs and some of the hassles I just explained.