LGT50 Dual Temperature Control 12 Volt Refrigerator 53 Quart Portable Car Fridge Freezer (-4°F~68°F) for Truck, RV, Boat, Camping and Travel

Great performance for the cost compared to competitors. The quality really seems to be here, several other reviews of previous versions of this model can be found on youtube from folks who have had basically this alpicool unit for OVER 4 years and zero issues - so we too pulled the trigger. We have been using this for 6+ months now without any issues or complaints... just praise. It sits in the back of our SUV and we use it while grocery shopping as it allows to keep the essentials - like Ice Cream - frozen until we get home. Our drive is on average about 40+ min from home to the stores so this has been a wonderful change for us. It has also given us the flexibility to stop after shopping and go into a restaurant for dinner and such. We use the 115v adapter that comes with it (also comes with a 12v adapter if you only have that in your vehicle) while plugged into the back of our vehicle (which has a built in inverter). We do not have this on a "always on" battery or connection so when we turn the car off, it turns off. This has NOT been an issue even when we go in to eat at a restaurant for up to a couple of hours. We have done this several times on the hot summer days and after having the unit already be at 5F or so when we stopped the car and when we return its usually around 40-50F or so and cools right back down very quick. We use all the features listed on this - from the echo cool mode to the max cool which can rapidly cool the unit from 85F to -5F in less than 20 min on max cool. We change it via their bluetooth app when we drive in to do grocery shopping. Although the divider lets us split compartments to do freezer and fridge on opposite sides we have found that for the most part we take out the divider and just use it all as a freezer or fridge depending on what we get. If we don't do this some of the larger items such as steaks and meat packages do not fit. We have been very happy with this purchase and have recommended this to several of our friends. It has really helped change how we do grocery shopping since we live a ways out from the stores.

After reading reviews and considering price and features, I purchased this product for an extended trip out west. I was a little cynical that it would be able to maintain the temperatures as well as it did, especially the frozen side since my travel coincided with hot environmental temperatures. The product worked as described and I am very happy. There was only one incident - described below - that gave me pause. Before taking on your trip, plug it in the night before, set the temperatures, place in vehicle, then fill with your food items. Since I was in a car and tried to limit moving it in and out, I purchased a 100 foot extension cord so it could be plugged in to 110. The cord for the lighter plug in was plenty long to reach from the back seat to the front. To keep the cooler level during the trip, I placed wood in the seat with a small piece of plywood. To keep the cooler out of the sun, I used a car shade. PROS - Maintained temperature for both sides. It kept fruit and ice frozen. Kept milk and water nice and cold. - Easy to set up and use - Spacious enough to purchase food and keep water cold so as not to constantly eat at restaurants. CONS After using it, I do not really have any true cons, just being picky; however, during the drive through the mountains that basically had switch backs, the unit stopped working. I was going to leave it in the car but carried it in the house, plugged it in to various outlets and it still did not come back on. I left it unplugged and turned off for a couple of hours and it came back on. I can only surmise that the constant back and forth in the mountains affected the compressor. I would suggest if you are traveling through the mountains with many sharp curves, turn off and leave off for a while just as it said when arriving new. The only true con is that there is only one lid (but I understand why). So when you open to get items out of the frig side and leave the lid up for an extended period of time, the freezer side is exposed. I brought along extra 1 inch foam to insulate the cooler during the drive. I placed the insulation over the freezer side while the lids was up - perfect!

I started semi truck driving so found out needed a fridge to avoid using regular ice cooler having soggy food so received fridge about 3 weeks ago as of this review. Purchased 50qt version. What I liked was it had wheels and baskets making it easier to move from my car to semi, can get baskets out while loading fridge to truck then just put baskets back in. I was surprised by the space, I loaded 17 days worth of frozen food in ziploc bags in right side freezer and 18 yogurts and sandwiches on left fridge side and still had plenty of room. Really quiet. I figured I can use for camping also. Wheels are thin, best to use on asphalt don't recommend for rough surfaces. It fits great in a Chevy Sonic back seat. In these weeks it has stood all travel bumps and still running great. Have loaded with drinks and holding up. Initial set up was plug and play, reached desired temp in about 40 min for fridge, freezer took a bit longer. Won't cool both sides at same time, will go back and forth between sides. In some instances you will see temp go bit up from one set but will regulate on it's own again without affecting your food. You need to download app from play store (android in my case) to use bluetooth function, no instructions included. Definetely recommend.

I am on my third alpicool cooler fridge. I have purchased 2 with the generic alpicool compressor, and 1 with the lg compressor. The t-60 has a dual zone refrigeration system that uses a single compressor and utilizes a valve to select where the refrigerant goes. This is the biggest cooler that you're going to fit between the seats of a freightliner cascadia (2019 generation) daycab, it’s snug between the back wall and the dash... I typically set mine at 38f for cold drinks and 4f for frozen food storage for supper. I love that it has wheels for the occasional times I need to pull it along the ground. This isn't that light empty, and has a Lot of room to make it stupid heavy when you load it up. I love that it has digital controls with a actual temperature setting and reading, and that you can have even more control when you connect to it via the app. It really doesn't draw much power when running, which helps. The drain plug is a nice addition for cleaning. Unfortunately customer support seems to have diminished over time, they were ready to help with my first cooler, but when the second one failed after 4 months I couldn't even get a response. Hopefully the manufacturer will see this review and re-evaluate, given it's durability issues.... *Update, 4 months in and lgt-60 has also FAILED. This is a lot of money for such a short term solution. Further inspection revealed wires corroded out on the cf-55 (my first alpicool) after over 3 years of service.

We do a fair amount of cross-country driving. Usually have a cooler w/us depending on the trip. This trip was a 4 day drive and we had to bring in food supplies and needed to stay frozen. During the trip up, dry ice was particularly hard to find. Regular Ice just didn't keep the meats frozen like we needed. For the return trip, we purchased the Alpicool T60 Fridge/Freezer. Looking at primarily the freezer operation in this case to haul back the fish, meat and vegetables we were bringing home. The Cooler met and exceeded my expectations. When we got it, read thru the instructions and got it cooling down to -10 degrees w/in about 45 min. on AC pwr. If using only as a freezer, it's very easy to operate. To use as a Fridge/Freezer, you place the patrician back in and it splits the operation of the cooler into a Freezer/Fridge operation. You can set each section individually at the temps you want. In our case we only needed the Freezer operation for this trip. Works really well whether on AC power or DC power. Since it didn't have a battery to keep it running at night when we'd stop, we'd roll the cooler into our room and plug it in. Back in the truck, back on DC power. Operationally was great. By the time we got the Cooler home, it had started to develop frost inside the cooler and everything was frozen solid. Had two complaints about it, but not enough of an issue to me to drop a star off the rating. 1. The instructions were not laid out well. The instruction manual had multiple models listed in the manual. Was confusing at first which page was for our unit. Because there was so much info on the pamphlet, the text was small and in my opinion, needed to be re-written to make the instructions more clear & simple. As a Tech minded guy, I knew what they were trying to say, others may have struggled w/it. My suggestion for them is the just have the one pamphlet for the one product only on the sheet. I know it will cost a few more pennies to have multiple instruction pamphlets, but think it would be worth it. 2. Was not impress w/the handles to move the cooler. Yes it had wheels on it, but when you have one of the larger coolers loaded, depending on what you are hauling, the cooler could be 40 to 65 pounds or more. As they coolers get larger, My suggestion would be to add another set of wheels on the other end of the cooler so you could just pull it along. Trying to roll the cooler w/the extended handle they provide, made for a strenuous lean and bend of the back when you go from parking lots to rooms and back. As well, the handle that you use, should be thicker and rounded, maybe even padded. Would fit the hand better. After moving the cooler into my room the first night, I had very red pinch marks on my hands from hauling the cooler to my room. Took a few days for the pinch/bruising to go away. Was it the end of the world, no, just a bit of an annoyment. Moving forward, I'm going to get one of those little collapsable luggage dollies and will be all good. Like I said, my 2 gripes, were just that gripes. Not show stoppers by any mean. Overall though; Fantastic cooler. very pleased with it. Highly recommend it!

Pros: Sips power (see below), quiet and versatile with the dual zone. Mobile app works great, Bluetooth has excellent range Cons: Compressor seems like it may be under powered. Struggled to maintain temperatures below 10F So I ran a few power tests on my 500wh solar generator at 67F ambient temperature. First was a stress test. I put in a few room temperature freezer packs and water bottles. Ran it on eco first with left compartment at 32 and right at -4. It was drawing about 22 watts on eco. After a couple hours freezer temperature had only dropped to around 15 so I changed from eco to max. Power draw went from low 20s to mid 30s. After 4 hours the battery back was at 80% so about 100wh used. Which was consistent with what the power meter was saying at an average of 25 or so watts between eco and max. Temperature only dropped to around 8F in freezer. Water hadn’t iced over yet at this point. Compressor ran constantly all 4 hours. So I could expect around 600wh over a 24 hour period. I then plugged it into AC and left it running overnight to see if I could get it to drop to the set temp. Best I could do was briefly hit 2F but it usually stayed around 10F. It seems that the compressor really couldn’t keep up. It ran constantly during this time as far as I could tell. All water was frozen solid at this point but couldn’t get it below zero. So this is probably fine if you need to keep ice frozen but for something like ice cream (which has a lower freezing temperature due to the salt and cream) it’s probably only going to work to keep it cool for a short period of time before it gets soft. Now it could be if I had both compartments a little more full with more thermal mass it could hold temperatures better. Time will tell. I was able to get it to hold to around 4F if I turned off the left compartment (which you can do by pressing and holding the + and - buttons) and let the compressor focus exclusively on the right side so there are some options there. I then set the left to 38F and bottom to 20F and plugged it back into the solar generator and let it run overnight. I noticed the power draw was around 20 watts this time. And when I checked again in the morning the generator was at 78% after 13 hours running. Ice was still frozen solid. So about an average of 8.5wh during that time. Indicating the compressor was running for maybe 40% of the time or so that works out to around 200wh over a 24 hour period. Now these numbers aren’t 100% accurate as I’m sure the battery meter on the power bank has some play in it but probably a good general estimate as to what to expect. My final test was to see if I could get it down to -4. So I wrapped it in small blanket, being sure to leave the vents unblocked. Set the left to 38 with a 10 degree hysteresis and plugged it into AC. Beginning temp was 20 on right. After about 3 hours it hit -4 and the compressor shut off. So it can be done but it took the right conditions. I probably still wouldn’t trust it to maintain temperatures below 10F in normal conditions. I did just order one of those insulated covers they make for these that just popped up on Amazon. We I’m we see if that helps. Will be interested to see how it works in higher ambient temperatures this summer.

I bought this for the small living quarters in my horse trailer that we take way off grid. It sat on the porch in the box for about a month until I got around to it so it was out of Amazons return policy. Well, it is much bigger than the full size cooler I was using and would not fit in the spot I use. With a little creative re arranging all was good at this point. First off, I power the quarters with 2 100 watt solar panels and 2 12 volt deep cell marine batteries and a 1000 watt inverter for the coffee maker, flat screen, microwave, laptop, etc. When I first plugged it in the panel light came on and went out quickly and when the power button was pushed it just beeped. This happened with both the power supplies. I could not find anything in the manual which is pretty basic, but there is a wealth of info on YouTube just nothing on powering it up or the power supply. I was concerned when both the contact phone numbers in the manual were disconnected so I contacted the manufacture by email and hoped for the best. Then just for fun I down loaded the app and went back down to the corrals where I park the trailer and tried to pair the cooler with my iPhone. I plugged the cooler in, the control panel flashed and went out then it paired and I pressed the on/off button in the app on my iPhone and the cooler powered right up and has been working flawlessly now for about a week with or without my phone. I put some beer in the refrigerator part and left it over night. The next day the beers were cold (very very cold). So here is how the test went. I check it morning and night when I feed and in the evening there is always a nice cold beer for my wife and I so this makes the test fun. This cooler has worked continuous for about a week without draining the batteries past what the solar panels can keep charging even with one cloudy day in there. It will be even more energy efficient when it is full and what a relief to not have to be continually to deal with ice. Now to my surprise I heard back from the manufacture in an email within 24 hours with a return shipping label no questions asked. I will keep the cooler. Up Date: It has been about 1 year and it still works great and it is so nice to have a freezer for extended off the grid stays. I did find when you plug in to my power inverter using the AC cord my batteries discharged very quickly so using the 12volt plug is the best for conserving energy and my solar panels will recharge what is used every day.

Have had mine for ~4 weeks now, have been on 2 camping trips with it. The 5 stars is purely based on bang for the buck. In a head to head with a danfoss compressor or similar level system it would probably be a solid 3-4. Not sure if another clone has popped out or not yet but this is the smallest dual zone I found. I was not particularly needing the dual zone, but the option to have it in this size is pretty awesome for a smaller setup where you can't fit/don't need a 60L+ unit. The power draw to maintain a freezer section is high compared to fridge only. Power draw seems to max around 60 watts. Duty cycle once temp is established is maybe 20% run time for the compressor (higher if maintaining freezer zone). ECO draws a bit less and duty cycle is lower. Be careful how often you open it when in ECO if you want to maintain consistently good temps. In practical terms... I have a 500 watt hour power unit and it will run the unit for less than a day. Good for overnight with the battery dedicated to running the unit but not for multiple days unless you have a way to charge it. In fridge mode however... looks like it can do 3-5 days depending on how it is loaded, how often you are opening things etc... and that is in an Alabama summer environment. If you want to run it off your car battery it does have a battery management feature which you can set high medium or low basically meaning it will shut off a different voltage levels as the battery drains. I would only rely on it if you are with others and have jumper cables in case it drains your batteries. If boondocking alone I recommend a completely independent battery for running the fridge. Something that is not very clear is that the center divider comes out so that you are left with a single zone system. The controls recognize if the separator is installed or not which is pretty nice. The baskets are designed to have the center divider in place so as a single zone you will need to come up with another way to manage storage or have to deal with them rattling around as you drive. My unit came with unadvertised blue tooth capability allowing you to keep an eye on temps, and change any settings from an app available both on the apple app store and google play store. Seem sit is something of a Russian roulette situation on whether or not you get a unit with this capability. There also appears to be an LG compressor that some ship with that is pretty quite and a bit more efficient. Mine does not have it. Noise level is.... bearable. But in max power mode the compressor cycles can be pretty obnoxious before it settles down a bit. ECO mode is a bit better but still not exactly great. I originally thought I would put this unit in the screen room of our tent so I could share the battery I run it with... I now only keep it in the car overnight due to the noise. It isn't so much the noise itself is all that bad, the problem is it is kind of random and not consistent so it would be likely to difficult to fall asleep if it were nearby. Lastly... couple minor details. The measurement for width does NOT include the wheels. However it is pretty easy to take them off if need be. It is about an inch wider that listed with them on. My instructions were incorrect about which unit had to be the freezer in mixed mode. The freezer side is the L shaped section over the compressor. The controls on mine will not let me set the wrong side low and if you increase temps on the L shaped section above the setting for the fridge section they will both change setting values.