{"id":2219,"date":"2018-03-12T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4wdsupacentre.com.au\/news\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2018-03-12T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:10:36","slug":"have-fridges-done-away-with-the-need-for-ice-boxes-this-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/have-fridges-done-away-with-the-need-for-ice-boxes-this-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Fridges Done Away With The Need For Ice Boxes This Easter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve just invested in a portable fridge<\/a><\/strong> for your camping adventures, or you\u2019ve been running a 12v fridge<\/a><\/strong> for years, you might think that an ice box<\/a><\/strong> is old technology. After all, didn\u2019t we all start out with ice boxes<\/a><\/strong> in the beginning? No doubt you remember the days of melted ice and snags floating in icey water. That\u2019s why we invest in 4×4 fridges<\/a><\/strong> after all! However, it may come as a surprise that many of the most well-travelled 4×4 adventurers in the country aren\u2019t ditching ice-boxes<\/a><\/strong> at all, and in fact are still using them to provide a couple of vital functions. The reason why comes down to your 4×4 battery<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

For a portable fridge<\/a><\/strong> to run properly, it needs 12v power. The Adventure Kings 60L fridge<\/a><\/strong> and Adventure Kings 80L fridge<\/a><\/strong> are built with incredibly efficient compressors and excellent insulation which means that they use a whole lot less power than you\u2019d think, but like any fridge<\/a> <\/strong>they can only work as long as there\u2019s battery power to keep them running.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re around camp this Easter, especially if it is one of those beautiful campsites that you don\u2019t want to leave, chances are you\u2019re going to want to do a whole lot of nothing. Okay, maybe some fishing, or drinking, or reading, or bushwalking \u2013 but certainly not worrying about whether your batteries<\/a> <\/strong>are up to the task of keeping your fridge<\/a> <\/strong>cold.<\/p>\n

The fact that you\u2019re parked up at camp for a couple of days makes the situation even harder and places more stress on your deep cycle battery<\/a><\/strong> because not only are you not driving anywhere, but you, your mates and your family are probably opening and closing the fridge<\/a> <\/strong>30 or more times a day. And you know what the kids are like \u2013 they\u2019ll stand there with the fridge<\/a> <\/strong>open for 30 seconds trying to decide if they want a bottle of water or a cordial! Every time you open your 12v fridge<\/a><\/strong> you let the cold out and it has to work hard to bring the temperature back down again. That means your portable fridge\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> compressor will be constantly running, and you\u2019ll see the results when your deep-cycle 4WD battery<\/a><\/strong> goes flat very quickly. Yes, you can definitely use a solar panel<\/a><\/strong> like any from the Adventure Kings range<\/a><\/strong> to help your battery<\/a><\/strong>, but an icebox<\/a> <\/strong>can help even more!<\/p>\n

Many 4WDers and campers are switching onto the fact that an icebox<\/a> <\/strong>is the perfect companion to your 12v fridge<\/a><\/strong>. An icebox<\/a> <\/strong>lets you store all your drinks while leaving your fridge<\/a> <\/strong>to do the job of keeping the food nice and cold. Have a think about how often you open your 12v fridge<\/a><\/strong>, and for what reason. We\u2019re willing to bet that 90% of the time it\u2019s because you want to get a drink out, right? If all those drinks lived in your icebox<\/a> <\/strong>then straight away you\u2019re opening your fridge<\/a> <\/strong>90% less often, meaning it doesn\u2019t have to work anywhere near as hard to keep its internal temperatures down.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re going somewhere epic like Fraser Island or Cape York this Easter, or you\u2019re heading to your favourite local campsite, an icebox<\/a> <\/strong>can take a huge amount of strain off your vehicle\u2019s 12v system. What\u2019s even better is that the Adventure Kings range of iceboxes<\/a><\/strong> are available in sizes 40L<\/a><\/strong>, 60L<\/a><\/strong>, 80L<\/a> <\/strong>and 100L<\/a> <\/strong>to suit everyone from a solo adventurer to the biggest clan heading bush. We\u2019ve tested them and proven that they\u2019ll keep ice for days too! The trick here is not to break up the ice and pour it over the drinks, as tempting as that might seem. Keep that method for your next backyard BBQ. When you\u2019re camping<\/a><\/strong>, buy blocks of ice or keep the bag of ice frozen up together in the middle of the icebox and put your drinks all around it. Using this method and keeping the icebox<\/a> <\/strong>directly out of the sun, it\u2019s very doable to make one bag of ice last well into the third day!<\/p>\n

Portable fridges<\/a><\/strong> are a brilliant way to ensure your food stays cold, but there\u2019s definitely still a place for the humble icebox<\/a> <\/strong>in every campsite. And here at 4WD Supacentre<\/a><\/strong>, you can get ahold of both for way less than just buying a 12v fridge<\/a><\/strong> just about anywhere else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve just invested in a portable fridge for your camping adventures, or you\u2019ve been running a 12v fridge for years, you might think that an ice box is old technology. After all, didn\u2019t we all start out with ice boxes in the beginning? No doubt you remember the days of melted ice and snags…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.emgcloud.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}