Well, for considerably less than the cost of any propane or electricity consuming refrigerator, one can get a Yeti box, which reputedly (and per other list members, actually) holds ice for extended periods, and is an approved bear box.

mcneely

---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Yeah, there's that, too.
>
> I guess there's nothing for it but to haul an ice chest when additional
> cold storage is needed.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 08/26/2012 08:18 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> > Absorption fridges also don't like very high temperatures.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> > Rocket J Squirrel
> > Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 8:31 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Fridge Burner box
> >
> > Lehman's probably doesn't measure fuel consumption in 100F weather.
> > That's when it really matters.
> >
> > --
> > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> > Bend, Ore.
> >
> > On 08/26/2012 02:46 PM, David Beierl wrote:
> >> At 10:30 AM 8/26/2012, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> >>> That refrigerator uses 900 btu/hr on maximum setting, it says. A 16.4
> >>> oz bottle of propane provides 10,000 btu so the unit would drain a
> >>> bottle in 11 hours. That's not so good.
> >>
> >> On maximum setting it's a deep freeze. Lehman's claim .7 lb/day
> >> typical consumption.
> >>
> >> Yrs,
> >> d
> >

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David McNeely