There are 100 ways to swing a cat, and even more ways to keep your 12v Adventure Kings Fridge Freezer PUMPING icy cold all summer long.

We’re going to go over our top hints and tips for keeping your energy consumption down, as well as ensuring the beers stay cold even on hot summer days!

Starting out with a reliable 12v system – Your 12v fridge system is not going to be doing too much without a reliable power source, auxiliary 12v power is much easier than you think to get organised for your trips away, with a simple setup like an Adventure Kings AGM 115AH Battery inside a Battery Box you can run even more than your fridge freezer, with a usable amperage capacity of up to 48hours without anything to charge it up.

Coupled this battery with a handy 12v Solar Panel System like the Adventure Kings 120w Folding Solar Blanket you can stay off grid with your fridge almost indefinitely.

With your 12v sorted out, you are now ready to set up your Adventure Kings fridge freezer, by pre chilling your fridge at home before you even head out you dramatically reduce the amount of power your fridge needs to cool itself down.

When you are planning a longer trip off the grid, we highly recommend planning your meals out and buying all your meat in advance, this means you can pre-freeze things like steaks and chicken breasts, which act as a freezer brick, keeping your fridges internal space nice and cool preventing it from pulling more than its fair share of power from your battery system.

After you have pre chilled your fridge and all your long term meals are frozen your whole fridge will be nice and cold ready to hit the tracks.

Once you’ve loaded your fridge with your camping groceries, you can now unplug it from your wall socket, and load it into the car.

Once of the biggest tricks to keeping any fridge frosty cold is to make sure that you keep the lid shut, this will mean the cold air doesn’t get flushed out. This is why most 12v fridges are top opening, because cold air falls and hot air rises, the idea is that all your cold air stays inside your fridge, conserving energy!

Whilst it is ideal to never open your fridge, you will eventually have to crack the seal, this is okay, but don’t linger, make sure you plan what you are going to grab, this way you’ll always have frosty beers, and prolong your time off the grid, so next time you get up at camp, offer to grab your mates a cold one, and they’ll owe you one.

The last step to getting more efficiency out of your fridge when you head away on longer trips is to add a fridge cover, the additional insulation will protect the fridge from bumps and scrapes, as well as reducing the amount of cold that can leak out and the heat that can get in, this means your compressor doesn’t have to work nearly as hard to maintain the internal temperature of your fridge.

The final tip to getting more out of your fridge is ensuring you have clear ventilation around the opening of your fridge. To make the internals colder you have to remove heat, this means the heat has to go somewhere, and that somewhere is out the mesh radiator section of your fridge. By allowing free airflow around this section you’ll find that your fridge runs less hot and more efficiently. In addition to this, if you are parking for an extended period of time it is a great idea to crack a window or if secure even a door, to allow cooler air to circulate the cabin and draw all the excess heat out of your fridge.

When the internals of an ordinary family car can exceed 70°C on a 30°C summer day, you can only imagine how hot a vehicle can get during the peak of summer during a balmy 45°C mid summer scorcher. This highlights just how important it is to always ensure maximum ventilation around your fridge freezer regardless of what you are up to!

Get more out of your Adventure Kings Fridge Freezer this summer!