Bodegacooler Electric Cooler Portable Fridge Freezer IPX4 Rating Water Resistant 26qt

I have been a long time cooler camper/off-roader but now I am in the big leagues of ice cold refreshments on the trails! I love my bodega it performed flawlessly on a 4 day Offroad trip in steamy July weather. I used the child seat hooks to secure it to the seat not shown in the pictures. 1st gen Tacoma double cab for reference.

We have plugged it in and tested it according to the directions. We have not put it to use yet, but so far so good.

This compact little cooler/fridge/freezer is pretty amazing. I tested it by putting 6 bottles of room temperature water inside and setting the fridge temperature to its lowest -4 degrees F. The fridge started with a reported temperature of about 70 degrees F. After about 12 hours, the fridge had reached 7 degrees F and the bottles of water were mostly frozen. Another 12 hours later, and it was sitting at -4 degrees with the bottles completely frozen. This thing can be a freezer!

The lid seems to insulate well, because while cool to the touch, it doesn't feel icy, even along the edges. The motor makes similar sounds to that of a standard refrigerator, but just much quieter.

We already had the 38 quart big brother of this cooler, and we regularly run it off a portable power station. If we make sure to pre-chill the coolers and load them with frozen or cold items, we can switch them over to the portable power station and run them for almost an entire day.

These coolers are a little pricey, but they're incredible convenient and require surprisingly little power to run. This smaller 25.9 quart version seems to do an even better job of cooling than our larger version. I'm really looking forward to taking it on our next family outing.

I sat this in room temperature just to test it. It was upper 70s in the house. Quickly went down to -4F inside according to the digital readout on it. Was certain super cold inside. Of course that was empty, might take a little longer loaded up. Super quiet too. Can't wait to use it in the Jeep out on the trail!

I plugged this in and let it cool down. I set the temperature to 16°F on the control panel, and it was down to temp in a few hours.
I put a couple of bottles of refrigerated water inside along with a thermometer, and the temperature held fairly steady at 15.7° to 16.1°.
After a few hours the bottles started to freeze.

As the cooler ran, it cycled on and off.
When it was starting back up after being off for a bit it would pull 3.2 Amps off of a 12 Volt power supply.
After it had been running for a while, the current dropped to just under 2.5 Amps.
When it was cold enough that it turned off, it would only pull about 0.050 Amps, or 50 mA.
It would be in the running mode about 2/3's of the time as it was cooling down the water bottles.
If it was filled with already frozen items or set to a higher temperature, it would run less.

With this cooler, if it is already cold, you should get around 25 hours of run time off of a 50 Amp/Hour car size battery before the battery is discharged. Run time will depend on many things, but this new style electric cooler is a lot better than the older ones.

This cooler uses less than half the total power of one of the older style thermo-electric coolers.
My old Igloo Thermo-Electric cooler uses 5 Amps and runs constantly, this would have only given you about 10 hours of run time off of the same battery.

The hatch/lid has a foam gasket to prevent the cold air from leaking out, and a spring loaded latch to keep the lid closed until you want to open it.

It runs fairly quiet, there is some motor hum and a bit of noise from the refrigerant moving around, but it is about 1/2 as loud as an old dorm room fridge that was in the same room.

Over all this worked better than expected, now I just have to figure out how to keep it powered when camping off the grid for a weekend.