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[flinchlock]

I knew someone was going to ask what model we put in and I did not keep that info.

In an email from Ben to me...

The aux battery consists of an Interstate Battery #DCM-0075

Mike

[benburnett]

He was asking what model of Engle fridge. That was the info that I didn't keep:)

Thanks for posting the battery info though.

[flinchlock]

Dah!

Maybe I should stop doing this... http://www.pokealexi...ge=autopoke.php

Mike

[DLN]

Ben,

I'd love to see a picture of that Engel installation. Any chance of posting one?

[erod]

Ben,

I'd love to see a picture of that Engel installation. Any chance of posting one?

me too ben !

[brett13]

Ok, bear with me here:

Engle states the large model weighs 53#.
If I currently use 2 ice chests of 54 quarts each and fill them roughly 1/2 full with ice (blocks and cubes). That would be about 26 quarts of ice each minus some air, so say 20 quarts of ice each or 40 quarts ice total.
40 quarts = 10 gals.
10 gals water x 8.3 #/gal = 83# ice (before any melting and emptying)
cooler might weigh 4# each x 2 = 8 lbs
pounds saved 83+8=91
pounds added 53
net weight saved = 38 assuming I can ditch both coolers (ditching only one actually adds weight)

This math seem right?

Of course, there is the convenience factor, which is huge. I'm just trying to estimate weight saved here.

[Mark W. Ingalls]

Seems right to me, Brett, but then I'm only good with Math, not arithmetic.

I was thinking about it from the cost angle. Say an average bag of ice costs $2 and lasts two days, so a bag of ice a day means you'd have to camp for approx. 700 days to pay off the Engel in ice savings. Camping 50 days a year, that works out to a 14 year payback for an MT35!

I decided to live on canned goods for a month straight to see what it was like. So far, not bad...

[flinchlock]

I decided to live on canned goods for a month straight to see what it was like. So far, not bad...

We decided to live on home canned goods since December 1999 to see what it was like. So far, not bad...

Silly Meatasaurus, ice is only for beer, not food.

Vegasaurus Mike

[Mark W. Ingalls]

Silly Meatasaurus, ice is only for beer, not food.

This meatasaurus drinks highly refined beer in the form of WT101--



They spend so much time and effort getting the water out of that stuff, I wouldn't think of adding it back, frozen or not.

I tried keeping a bottle in the freezer once, like my brother-in-law does with tequila. It took on the consistency of maple syrup and I got all confused over that.

Speaking of confused, I'm wondering, "Is '-asaurus' a synonym for '-head'?"

[brett13]

This meatasaurus drinks highly refined beer in the form of WT101

Your missing out. I keep some of this handy at all times...




Why is it that so many of our threads degenerate into comparing alcoholic beverages? Let the Guiness crowd chime in now...