Bluefin Active Expedice 50L Fridge

Bluefin Active Expedice 50L Fridge

-4 to 68 degrees for us real Americans who don’t believe in that foo-foo European ‘celcius’ unit of measurement. :saluting_face:

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your country thanks you for your de-foo-foo service. :us:

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Looking at the Amazon listing, it appears to be 240 AC only (but 12/24 DC) and the display only in C°. Can WOOT confirm if that is the case with this item?

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I have an ICECO which is very similar, and as long as I can supply it with 12V DC 3 Ampere, it doesn’t care about where in the world it is. C’mon now, most of us die hard WOOT folks have a crate of unused wall warts…

Thank you for converting to Freedom Units.
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“The Bluefin Active Expedice 50L Portable Fridge is our most compact portable compressor refrigerator.“

And yet their 36L model is in this very Woot sale.

If you’re hungry for more photos and details for a $200 purchase, mother Amazon appears to have them. (Price there, $365).

https://www.amazon.com/Bluefin-Technology-Efficient-Compartments-Smartphone/dp/B09FTL1KW7?th=1

We’ve had a Massimo 50L compressor-based portable fridge for several years (C warehouse, I think we paid $280, not currently sold).

It has the compressor mounted up high, which kinda made sense to me to keep the heat outputting part high and making it easy for cool-producing output to drop coolness down into the fridge. (I think crazy pricy Sub-Zero does the same thing.)

However, makes using our fridge less friendly since stuff gets buried in that space on the side below the compressor. And unloaded, makes it a bit top heavy, not a big deal since it is surpisingly light overall.

The thing that I’d be concerned about if using a bottom-mounted compressor model camping on ground - ingesting dust and crap from the ground. Even in the car, I like that the venting on our top mounted unit is high and easier to be sure it isn’t getting blocked by luggage.

These compressor-based fridges are super handy if you always have a 12 volt power source when camping or travelling, whether it be a vehicle, solar, and/or a smart battery (not “generator”). No more messing around with buying ice once or twice a day. (Although, if you wish to improve the off-grid power demand, throwing a pre-frozen 64 or 128 ounce juice bottle in it will do that for a period of 3-5 days. And of course keeping it full of already cold stuff.)

Amazon reviews are not good