Alpicool C15 Portable Car Freezer,12 Volt Refrigerator, 16 Quart (15 Liter) Fast Cooling 12V Car Fridge -4℉~68℉, Car Cooler, 12/24V DC and 100-240V AC for Outdoor, Camping, RV, Truck, Boat

EDIT 5 WEEKS AFTER PURCHASE: Still haven't had a reply from customer service. :/ EDIT, DAY 10: STILL NO RESPONSE FROM CUSTOMER SERVICE! EDIT, DAY 4: SENT TO CUSTOMER SERVICE YESTERDAY. NO REPLY! "We need guidance on how to use this as a freezer while it's plugged into the wall at home, please. #1. It seems unclear as to what MODE it should be when plugged into the wall at home. #2. It's been plugged in and set to -4°F for 3 days and, while it's keeping things cold, nothing is FROZEN. (We have planned to use it to keep ice packs frozen, so it's filled with ice packs.) #3. The booklet says to put it at -14°F for ice cream. However, our unit will not go below -4°F. Could you please educate us on how to use it as a freezer, at home, plugged into the wall with the provided cord? Thank you!" (WILL UPDATE WITH RESPONSE IF RECEIVED) EDIT, DAY 3: It's been set at -4°F for 3 days, filled with ice gel packs that we know get hard when frozen, and they're still liquid. Very very cold, but still soft. I emailed the company for advice. Will update. Original post: I have no regrets on day one. Immediately after plugging to AC indoor power, it started getting cold, but you can just BARELY hear it! It's a fan noise, whisper quiet. If I had to sleep in close quarters with it, it would not disturb my sleep or peace. Got this to keep 12 of the LARGE SIZE COOLER SHOCK PREMIUM ICE PACKS (available at Amazon) frozen in order to rotate out to a plain ice chest or other 12v refrigerator (depending on what we get; we're not there yet) OR even to keep our big freezer in the sticks-n-bricks as backup in case of SHTF. We will rotate in the spent ones from our ice chest or fridge into the Alpicool to re-freeze at 0°F (having put the other 6, FROZEN ones in the ice chest for the next night. Saw this general technique on Lulu's Way YouTube channel and it seems to work amazingly, though she used hard ice "bricks" and I'm trying these as they say they're "colder and lighter than ice." (Not cheap, but it's a one-time investment for a system we think will last longer term. Hope!) If anyone needs this info, this Alpicool chest holds 6 LARGE laid flat and stacked horizontally inside the freezer. I bought 12 so I can always have 6 being frozen and 6 more at hand to keep the ice chest cold without getting soupy with ice water. If we have any problems I'll let ya know. But so far we are really grateful we were able to grab one. Must-have for any prepper or no_mad!

Update May 2022. Running continuously, in a truck, left outside, year round, in S. Texas, for over 4 years. Has started to occasionally make fan noise like the bearings are starting to wear out. I've only heard it 2 or 3 times in last 4 months and turning it off and on again makes the noise stop. Otherwise, still working fine. Update Sept 2021. Running continuously for 3 1/2 years and still going strong. First, although the manufacturers box clearly shows that it must be transported "right side up", amazon placed it upside-down in an amazon box. In order to read the shipping label, the manufacturers box had to be upside down. While this was a serious fail on the part of amazon fulfillment, it had nothing to do with the manufacturer or the quality of the compressor cooler. I contacted the manufacturer and they said that it should be alright as long as I let it sit, Right-Side-Up for two days before using it. I did so, plugged it in and it is getting cold. The manufacturer was quick to respond and provided very helpful information. Second, I also contacted the manufacturer about the specific cut off voltages for the three levels of the battery saver feature. They are as follows: Stage 12V input 24V input H1 9.6V off;10.9V on 21.3V off;22.7V on H2 10.1V off;11.4V on 22.3V off;23.7V on H3 11.1V off;12.4V on 24.3V off;25.7V on The documentation they sent also included instruction for making adjustments that I have not seen documented anywhere else. These special features are accessed by first turning off the cooler with the "soft off" button. The pressing and holding "Set" until "E1" appears. Press "Set" to move to each setting in turn, and press the up/down buttons to make adjustments. The special settings are: "E1" Lowest temperature setting "E2" Highest Temperature setting (I think there is a maximum 40 C spread between E1 and E2) "E3" Temperature Return Setting "E4" Soft start Setting and "E5" Changing from Celsius to Fahrenheit (My favorite) Programming temperature compensation (in case the internal thermometer is not accurate) appears to also be possible. Third, innitial impressions: The owners manual says that the top can be opened either to the side or front to back. That is not true. It will only open to the side. The top is easily removed by lifting off when the hinge pins are at the correct angle. It is reasonably quiet. 10 minutes after first plugging it in and setting to the default minimum temperature of -4 F (-20 C) it got to that temperature and stopped. It was empty at the time and started at 78F. So, assuming the internal thermometer is accurate, it dropped the temp 82F in 10 minutes.\ The plastic around where the power cord plugs in seems a little cheap and flimsy. It bowed noticeably with the force required to insert to power cord. I have given this 4 stars for now, because of the poor documentation and cheap feel of plastic where the power cord plugs in. After a little use, if it works as expected, I'll probably increase this to 5 stars. To the manufacturer: Draining a battery to 11.1 volts (the highest battery protection setting) on a regular basis will quickly kill most batteries. Draining it to 9.6 volts (lowest battery protection setting) would damage any lead acid battery. Please add a battery saver setting with a relatively high voltage, like 12.5 volts. This would allow it to be plugged into a car and only run when the car was on. When hooked up to a solar system, it would allow it to run as a "dump load" only running when your battery is fully charged and you have nothing else to do with the power. Then the excess power could be used to make ice. Final note: There are several reviews here which report erratic operation or it staying on all the time. I suspect that some of those problems are related to the hidden settings getting accidentally set to random settings after piling stuff on top of the cooler. I upped my rating to 5 stars. After several weeks of use I'm very surprised by just how little power it uses. I have it on a 35AH battery that is charged by solar panels and the lowest voltage I have seen so far in the morning is 12.4. It does collect a little condensation and after a month it started to grow a little mold inside. It cleaned up easily with a paper towel. It does what it is supposed to do, it us very efficient and it was less than 1/2 the price of the competition. So 5 stars. Update: After 16 months is has 2 times (that I know of) gone into a "run away" cooling condition. When in that condition it would run the compressor, non-stop, until it was turned off or the battery was dead. The compressor gets VERY hot when this happens as it is not designed for a 100% duty cycle. Everything inside freezes solid. Some other reviews mention something like this. I suspect that it is a firmware issue, causing the internal computer to lock up. Unplugging it for a moment has always returned it to normal operation. Other than these two instances, it has worked flawlessly, non-stop, 24/7, for almost a year and a half. Because of the low price and fact that it has only done this twice (that I'm aware of), I am keeping my 5 star rating. I have also noticed that a few paper towels in the bottom to absorb the condensation helps to keep the mold down. Just change them once a month, when operated continuously. One other note: A 35 AH AGM battery, with a solar panel, will not keep it running for more than 2 cloudy days. 1 day if parked in a garage.

I have read some of the other reviews and this is what I think about the Alpicool C15. I bought mine to transport items from the supermarket to home during the warmer months and summer, at least 30 minutes and at times an hour. It does this with flying colors and I would not hesitate to use this for any length of time. If I'm using this as a freezer, it will keep frozen things frozen. It was freeze meat that is not frozen. Ice cream that is hard will stay hard and in great shape when put in the freezer at home. In refrigerator mode, I will set it at 30 not more. Less than 30 for any length of time, may begin to freeze certain items. I have not had a single issue with this cheap unit. I have two large ones of the same brand. Dependable, one of the larger one uses more power the other larger on uses less believe it or not. All three do have the insulated jacket on them and fit like a tailored suit. Perfect. As far as some having issues and poor customer service, I'm sorry to hear that. I personally will buy another one if and when this fails me. I have used this 2 summers and stays in the car during summer. From a hot start, this cools to what ever I set it at and ready for use 30 to 40 minutes. Ice cream, I'll start it 60 minutes before. Side note, I did fill it once with ice cream bars and nutty bars for an event and when I handed them out, they were right on the edge but okay if eaten right away. It was 90+ that day and sat in the freezer for 4 hours before handing them out. Try that with a cooler and ice. No complaints. None.

This cooler/freezer/whatever this this thing is, its cool, and it works as expected, however it does have a lot of caveats. For one, the temperature readout display is very inaccurate, therefore I do wish there was a way to change the lowest temperature setting so I can get it below 13° Fahrenheit, the lowest I’ve been able to get it, in a climate controlled room with nothing inside of it. I use a thermometer with a thermal probe attached to the lid of the cooler, where one would assume the warmest point is, to gauge a worst-case scenario for the warmest points inside. In my trunk on a warm day (80°+) where the inside of my car can easily soar above 110° especially in the trunk which has a privacy cover and therefore is not ventilated, this cooler can maintain a temp of 37-40° with 5-10 bottles of drinks in it, which is acceptable for keeping beverages cool, and will go as low as 17° completely empty in the same scenario. The compressor is not as loud as one would assume, the only time I find it noticeable is when it is powering on or off, where it will vibrate considerably for about half a second. However, the fan used in this cooler to dissipate heat is noticeable, it has a high-pitched whine to it, most noticeable at the rear of the unit, otherwise it isn’t a present noise unless you listen for it. The fan when observed through the side air vents looks to be a heavy-duty case fan, like one you would find in a server designed for continuous operation. One downside to the overall usage of the device is its poor insulative properties. Once up and running, the unit’s sides get very cold, as it appears to be leaking a lot of the cold energy it is producing back into the room. The left side handle, the one closest to the interior wall, gets very cold and often sweats on humid days, so as a “off for a very long time” device, intended to only be run for periods to get cold then be shut off, like on an overnight trip where power is limited, I cannot recommend this device unless you have a secondary long-term cold storage cooler to use when this one isn’t being powered. On a side note the compressor does ramp up and down depending on available power and if it needs more cooling capacity, which is a nice feature to get the temp down quickly. Overall this is a pretty useful device for whatever purpose you have for it, and I do plan on updating this review as the summer goes on to adjust for new findings and new adventures I have for this device. Also, if anyone has any specific questions, leave them in the Q&A section of this product page, me or other purchasers will be able to help. I purchased this device for my own personal use and did not receive any discounts or endorsements from the manufacturer or Amazon. **Edit 10/14/19** Still working as expected, plug socket on the device does seem to be a possible point of failure in the future, I've had a few disconnects when it was moved slightly. A big update and thanks to the information left by other reviewers I was able to find the menu to change the lowest possible temperature, I was able to get this thing sub-zero with no load inside but beyond that it can only cool to a certain point before it overwhelms it's capabilities. With the season now over, I use this cooler as a secondary refrigerator indoors for fridge overflow or beverage/ next day lunch in a bag situations, has been very consistent and slightly inconsistent, I'll explain. It will keep the temperature at a constant point but fluctuate rapidly, with it set to 32° f it will maintain that accurately (surprising right? It seems like when this device is left in a climate control room with no change in load and left undisturbed it will actually read an accurate temperature) however, it will go as low as 26° f and as high as 37° f, not very consistent in my opinion, and that's both read from my probe and the readout display. This fluctuation has caused a lot of moisture buildup inside the packaging of the food it holds, which will spoil the food much quicker. On another note, I found out over time that any sort of load on this device such as a room temperature water bottle or even one slightly above fridge temp will almost overwhelm it. Placing said bottle inside will cause the compressor to kick in for a very long time and the temperature to spike considerably. However, it does get back to temperature in a reasonable amount of time and while it will kick in more frequently until the new load is down to temp, I think it's safe to say this gets things colder quicker then my refrigerator does, somehow? Anyways I'm still satisfied with this product and hopefully this update gives some good insights to potential purchasers, I still recommend it despite the quirks it has.

Got this in June 2025. It has been used as a fridge in a work truck since that time. This July we went on a 2 week tent camping trip and used this. We used it for our already frozen meat we would use on the trip. We would plug it into our vehicle while driving. If we made a stop even for a couple of hours it would still be reading under the freezing mark when returning to our scorching hot car. We would plug in at our campsite when we arrived. We even took it into our hotel room the few days we chose that over setting up camp in the rain. It was a vacation not torture after all. But yes, it worked great and it's back to it's usual fridge life now. Love it!

I did a ton of research on what cooler to buy for some boondock camping and bought the Alpicool C20. I got it with the understanding that I needed to use hidden menus to change the temp units from C to F and that the interior temperature would be some 6 to 10 degrees off the displayed temperature and that that would also have to be corrected from the hidden menus. Neither of those concerns were observed in my case. When I turned it on for the first time it was set to F and after a day or two of testing the interior temp seems to be accurate with the displayed temp to about 1 degree I'd have to say. I have the unit set on 35 degrees and the seems to cool to 32 or 33 on compressor runs and not kick back on until 37 or 39. I placed a fridge thermometer inside and if I open it at say 33 degrees it subjectively looks like 32 or 33 depends on how you look at it. At any rate there seems to have been some attention paid to the temp disparity from the manufacturer. The manual is HORRIBLE. There are hidden menus available and the instructions are easily found on the internet. Because I didn't realize any issues as stated above I had no reason to get into the hidden menus to tweak anything. Just plug it in and set the initial temperature. EASY! One thing I noticed that I never read about anywhere is that if you use Celsius it will display 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. If you use F however it will not display numbers which don't correspond to a Celsius number. It drove me crazy as I got it set in my mind I wanted to set the fridge to just above freezing to 34 and you can't set it to 34. -It can be set to 32 degrees because that equals 0 C -The next step is 33 degrees as 1C = 33.8 F -The next step is 35 as 2C = 35.6 C -There is no 34 F If this somehow bugs you the most accurate display of temp will be in C. I lived in Japan for about 16 years of my adult life so using C is normal to me and not a problem. Your mileage may vary. The unit is QUIET. QUIET. Also I am doing endurance testing with it hooked to a Jackery Explorer 500 portable power station. It seems to consume 10% of the power every 6 hours or so. That is AMAZING and means it will power it for just over a couple of days. Perfect for a camping weekend off grid. When I first plugged it in AC I used a power monitor with it. (Sonoff S31). With no compressor running it pulls about 2 watts. When the compressor kicks in it starts with about a 56 (53 in my pic) watt surge which settles down quickly to approximately 45 watts of power when running. That is crazy amazing and half the power of a mini fridge you'd buy for the bedroom or garage. I would say compressor runs are 3-4 minutes and maybe only happen 3 or 4 times an hour. There are a couple of things I wish it had though but I can probably overcome this with some DIY knowledge. First is it can be pushed across the floor. Not super easily but it can be pushed. I'd like to see some really grippy rubber feet so it would not move at all and I'm thinking about this for the propensity for it to bounce around in a moving camper or vehicle. Next it has handholds on both sides similar to a regular non powered cooler. It's nice and easy to carry but I wish there were some way to have some hole or flip out handles so you could use them to secure the cooler with a tie down strap. About the only way to secure it for transport would be to put a strap around it. Again a DIY solution awaits but having the ability to easily secure it would be great.

I am a long time off grid homesteader and I have struggled to find a fridge/freezer that would would work on my small 400 watt system and I have tried just about everything. The Dometics and ARB and Engle are great but they are just too expensive for most of us cheap off gridders to invest in. Ice chests are not efficient and won't keep food frozen and you spend as much on ice in a year as this C20 costs without any of the hassle. I have had the C20 for over a week now and it works excellent for a single guy and I use it as my regular fridge freezer in my cabin but can also take it with me camping and adventuring which I do a lot. No more messy ice chests and buying ice. It runs great off of DC and at 3 amps on the eco setting with battery protection it won't leave you stranded with a dead battery. The picture shows the C20 loaded with a weeks worth of food. 2 frozen dinners, pound of hamburger, package of lunch meat, 2 frozen burritos, 2 frozen pizzas, , package of hot dogs, package of salad, bottle of past sauce, bottle of salsa, bottle of mayo, 2 cans of soda, package of shredded and sliced cheese and a quart of milk. Just a heads up. When I first got this fridge I set it to the lowest -4 setting because I didn't think it was cooling fast enough and by morning EVERYTHING in the fridge was frozen solid. If you are using it as a fridge set it on 20 and then the stuff at the bottom will stay almost froze and stuff on top will stay fresh and ready to use. It has enough room for an adequate supply of food and still small enough I can take it with me camping and adventuring which I do alot.. Another idea is you could use this as a freezer for all the stuff you want frozen and put in a couple of those reusable blue ice packs and freeze those to use in your ice chest for fresh foods and could even be used in one of those homemade chest air conditioners to keep your places cooler in summer. I am going to try that when the weather warms up! I have a full review of this Alpicool C20 on my Solarcabin channel: Alpicool C20 Off Grid Fridge Review 1 month update: I am using this as my full time fridge/freezer in my off grid cabin. I have finally found the perfect temp setting to be 20 which keeps everything just above freezing and that will keep frozen stuff frozen for 3-4 days and keeps my soda and beer at just the perfect temperature. I am running this off my small 400 watt solar power set up on DC power and it uses so little power I see hardly any drop over night just on battery power. I noticed compressor noise which is very soft just the first day or 2 and then it faded in to the background I no longer even notice it is running. Kicks on maybe every 5 to 10 minutes just to keep the temp at the setting. This has just enough room for a weeks supply of food and replace items only as used. I would give it 10 stars for price, low power and excellent for off gridders! LaMar- Simple Solar Homesteading.

Update 2/17/2020 - I took this unit on a field trip and it worked great. Caveat #1 While this unit work wonderful I did purchase a 1000W Jackery to power the unit while my Subaru Outback was turned off. The Jackery was expensive 1K however I also use it at home during infrequent power loss at home. I also use it outside to power some power tools. The Alpicool runs easily 7 to 12 hours on the Jackery. Note once the Jackery is used you either have to recharge it using your car which will require 10 to 12 hours of driving or find a 120V outlet. All things consider it was a great value. I did a 8 day trip during covid and used the Alpicool & Jackery with no problem. I spent 2 days without being close to a 120 volt outlet and still had enough power in the Jackery for 1 more night. Note before leaving it is best to start the Alpicool and get it cold only put cold food are cold beverages into the unit in order to conserve Jackery power. I am glad that I purchase both these items, traveling during Covid I made zero stops to purchase food are drink and was able to avoid other people. I have only had the fridge/freezer for 24 hours and here is my data for this 1st review on this product more to come as I continue to test. These car/trailer fridge/freezers on the market are becoming popular and they cost as much as your home fridge/freezers and while I did in depth research online real information is sparce, even the highest price units seem to have significant short comings. I don’t really believe any of the 5 stars can be true on any fridge/freezer product. 1st thing I did was turned on the Alipcool fridge setting to -4 degree F. After 2 hours it was at 4 degrees F settings on the fridge/freezer Max (seems good). At 5.5 hours it reached Zero degrees again not bad for a warm unit startup. At 7 hours running time it reached -2 degrees and remained there overnight. It never went below -2 degree after 18 hours of running time except when cycling. It seems to me that the lower limit is -2 degrees not -4 degrees. I also put a thermometer into my home freezer and it never got below -2 degrees so I am pretty sure this Alipcool fridge/freezer will not go below -2 degrees, which is an adequate temperature for most products. Personal note: When you open the door briefly you will see a sudden and dramatic temperature drop; it does return to the previous temperature within 15 minutes, this of course require more energy. I just wanted to note this for those with children for obvious reasons. Also, I placed the same digital thermometer into the Alpicool after removing it from my home freezer. A few remarks on the accuracy of this thermometer; This thermometer is not designed for testing however it does seem to give fairly accurate results and I have used it for years. It is an outdoor thermometer that seems to correspond to weather channel readings even when the temperature drops in the negative number for days at a time. In theory this Alipcool unit will be used a refrigerator and not a freezer ergo the cold temperature setting will be in the range of 30 to 35 degrees F. Having said this the temperature readings now coming from the Alpicool is 4 degrees F on the E mode. The problem is that my thermometer is showing 18 degrees F. My thermometer was placed on top of the Cotinga Cup in the center of the Alpicool. This is a 14 degree difference from what is seen on the Alpicool unit and is very distressing. After testing with the lithium batteries moved the thermometer back to my home freezer and the temperature returned to -2 degrees. Heretofore now, I have not seen this discrepancy reported in any previous reviews and makes me suspect either my thermometer is wrong are Alpicool unit thermometer is wrong? My next step was to run the unit in its current cold state with an external lithium battery with 150-Watt Hour and the Alpicool setting was to allow the fridge/freezer to drain the battery low. The fridge/freezer was plugged into the 110-volt sine socket. After 2 hours the 150Wh battery shut off. This was not surprising, and my test will continue with the Alpicool using the E setting and 150-Watt Hour battery. I forgot to mention previously that on the cold start up I put two 15 oz. Contagia cups filled directly from the cold-water tap. It took between 11.5 hours and 18 hours for the water to freeze solid. After hooking up the 2nd 150 Watt Hour lithium battery and running the Alpicool it ran for 3.5 hours on E mode vs 2 hours in Max mode. A significant increase in service this would indicate to me that E mode may work for those times when the Alpicool is being run off of the battery. So far, I feel good about this products performance and it is much cheaper than the higher end products. If my math is correct you should be able to run a 1000 Watt Hour lithium battery for over 13 hours. The downside is you just spent an additional $1000 dollars. My next test will begin September 10th when I am planning to go camping. Temporary Conclusion after 24 hours - the temperature discrepancy is distressing and leads me to believe that you must choose a setting below what you would normally set your home fridge/freezer. I fear that choosing a lower temperature could lead to freezing but since I don’t intend to use the fridge for anything like fruit are vegetables, I believe for $200 dollars it is good enough for me.

I purchased this refrigerator for a road trip from Canada to Mexico. It worked great for keeping a few things cold during my trip. Not a large capacity but exactly what I wanted/needed. Best of all it's QUIET. I did a fair amount of research into which one I should buy and decided on this one for a number of factors (low noise, 12V plus 110, etc). It took me a couple of days to determine the best temperature setting (so that no freezing happened) and once I determined the correct temperature for my needs, it kept my perishables cold and maintained the temperature throughout many external weather changes. It was also the perfect size and on my road trip it was easy to take into my hotels at night to plug into 110. To conclude, I'm very happy with it and highly recommend it.

After seeing postive review in youtube for this Alpicool C15 Portable Freezer.I decide to buy it.Since i live in a very small room in shared accommodation cannot accommodate the small regular 45L fridge in my room as it takes alot of space. This Alpicool 15 liter Portable Freezer it's more sufficient for putting small cooked fresh foods for some 3-4 items and drinks also.It come comes with AC adaptor for home and 12/24 volt for the car and trucks.From my 1 week experience it did not fail me so far in terms of cooling. Hope it will last many years. My advice is better to take it with extended warranty if you buy this mini fridge.

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