Dammit woot, i need the 32qt, the 42 is too tall for the space i want it for.
Ive been watching this for weeks.
For me walking to the beach pulling this portable freezer is equivalent to pulling up to a nightclub in a Ferrari 
Time to get the chainsaw
Actually more like pulling up to a nightclub in a flat-bed tow truck with your no-wheeled Ferrari on the bed.
There is nothing solar about this solar cooler. You have to buy the solar.
It’s the storage compartment of my RV. Chainsaw mods would likely void my “warranty”. 
Seriously though, this thing is fairly flexible with power options. No it doesn’t have solar built in, but if you already have panels, you can use those, don’t need a separate inverter/charge controller etc. and if you’re going to be out all day, you can have buy an extra battery charged up to swap out.
For when you want to show you have too much money to bother paying for a Yeti.
Solar freezer, solar panel not included. Oh, so you mean it’s a tiny battery powered refrigerator.
Exactly. Marketing gimmick.
It’s 3 way power, AC- (house plug), DC (car plug) solar/Battery. The solar can partially charge the battery while in use, I don’t think this runs directly off solar power, it would require a ton of panels to power a fridge/freezer. You don’t need a separate inverter/charge controller, just plug your solar panels directly in. If you want extended off grid use and aren’t interested in solar, you can buy an extra battery to swap out. There’s a ton of flexibility built in here.
I see what the problem is, woot’s listing is misleading. I’ve been looking at it on amazon/home depot it’s not listed as a “solar cooler” anywhere else.
Seems like it would be kind of heavy with a full load of drinks.
Ever try pulling a loaded regular cooler over sand or rough surface?
I’m confused by this statement - it appears to contradict itself.
We have a very similar spec/feature, but without internal battery unit we bought from Costco. But it is a larger 50 guart capacity Massimo brand vs this 42 quart ACOPower.
These compact compressor-based roller fridges tend to be pricey. And their power demand (the amount of time they run) to maintain temperature varies dramatically based upon the ambient temperature where they reside. They also run less when completely full of already chilled food/contents.
We power ours off grid with a $20 Renogy charge controller, an 85 AHr deep cycle marine battery, and single 100 watt Renogy solar panel. In a northern Midwest location. (Since it is a lead acid battery that means it’s real world capacity is about 43 AHr.)
If the weather is fully sunny and the ambient temperature is moderate - less than 75-80° - the solar setup has no difficulty powering the fridge. So the claim “a ton of panels to power a fridge/freezer.” is false in our real world experience.
What we do when the weather is really hot - dumping a cheap bag of ice in the top of the cooler dramatically reduces the run time. That ice will last for several days. These fridges have really good insulation. (Note: when we were using a well insulated un-powered cooler, we had to add significant ice every single day even on moderate temperature days, and then ended up with a cooler full of water.)
Longer term, we’ll moderately bump the size of the solar setup to 200 watts and 75-100 AHr of usable battery capacity, likely with a lithium ion battery. Bumping the battery alone would likely be sufficient since on our current setup, the battery tops off several times throughout the day. That should have no difficulty whatsoever powering the fridge in almost any ambient temperature.
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You have a battery you are running the cooler off of, just as this does. You’d probably need around 200 watts of solar to power the refrigerator directly, maybe even more if you were running it as a freezer. When the compressor kicks in, it draws more power than the solar can likely cover, so it’s drawing from the battery to cover the extra needed, then when it continues to run, it’s not drawing as much and your battery can recharge with the solar.
ETA: same reason you (usually) can’t power your AC in an RV with solar alone, you need a decent battery bank, even with soft starts. That being said, there are some people out there with mega solar systems, so it’s not impossible, but it’s expensive.
The weight of the compressor/battery is probably close to an even trade weight wise for not having to load the cooler with ice and is less messy/more useable space.
I’m basing it off the concept itself. I never read into the details since I better things to do with $500
“200 watts” of solar panels is hardly expensive. It’s about a buck or less per watt of solar panel. But why would anyone who understands solar even attempt to run a fridge or freezer directly off solar in the first place? It makes no sense. Your food would spoil when the sun came off the panel(s), overnight!
Virtually nothing powered by solar does it without a battery. Even those cheap crappy solar pathway lights have a battery in them.
The only solar scenario without a battery that I’m aware of is grid-tied home solar panels where the panels themselves don’t even power anything directly in the home - they route the solar output to the grid. That is, if the grid goes down, all those solar panels on the roof are rendered useless. (Lacking a whole-home battery.)
And unlike A/C units, these compact compressor portable fridges have very low startup power demands, so not at all comparable.
Your budget sounds even tighter than ours if $20+85+100= $205 (Charge controller/battery/solar panel) is a “mega solar system!” It does the job for us and in hot weather a second battery or larger single battery would even cover hotter weather.
Our title matches the manufacturer’s.