- Good day its Ben from Snowys today.
This is the Companion 45L Transit Fridge/Freezer.
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This is a really affordable option for people
who might be looking to step up from an icebox
to keep their food and drinks cold
when they're out camping.
We will cover some of the specs,
First it weighs about 16kg,
handles are fixed it measures about 69cm
from the end of the handle to the end of the handle here
you can't take them off.
Widthwise about 34cm or just over 34 centimetres this way.
And about 45cm from top to bottom here.
The exterior is made of polypropylene.
So it's a durable nice tough exterior here.
The handles all of this component you can see right here
the handles and everything, they're all polypropylene.
This is a metal or aluminium handle
on this end and the same at the other end here.
And there's sort of little plastic bumps stops
on the corners here as well.
So it's made fairly durable.
A bit of a tour on the outside
starting on this side here nothing much to see there,
there is vent here which covers up
the compressor on the back.
We've got the 12 and 24V input there,
we'll go into a bit more detail on that one shortly.
We'll flip it right around to the other side,
nothing to see there again
except for the vent for the compressor.
And then there's this end of the front here
the handle control panel at the front
and the hand lift open the lid.
We'll go into more of that shortly
but we'll just go to the back
and talk about that power source and compressor first.
So inside here is an LG dual speed compressor.
Now that's not a compressor that we've heard
of as much in some of the fridges or high-end fridges
such as Secop Danfoss or the South Fujimoto,
but it is a reputable brand.
So you're gonna see a good life out of this fridge here.
And it's a reasonably good current drawer as well.
I think I say about one amp per hour
but that obviously depends on a lot of different factors.
Now you get a few different cables
for this or two different cables.
You get at 12 volt cable here
so you can plug it into your cigarette socket
and all the cables plugged into the same port here.
You can change this from cigarettes to merit
if you take that end off there.
You've got a smaller merit plug there
and you also get a 240V transformer here.
So if we plug the 240V plug here
into the transformer here and then this can plug
into the back of the unit here.
There is a notch so it needs to sort to be
in the right way that plugs is in there.
I'm gonna plug the other end into 240V
and we'll see the control panel light up at the end here.
Now this control panel will go back
to the last setting you had it on.
So this was on the last time I plugged it in,
so I switched on if I had this switched off
when I unplugged it it would come on as being off
and I'll need to press this button
here to turn it on and off.
So press that switch is off.
Click it again, switches back on.
There's a few things going on here,
firstly, this is a battery indicator on the side here
which has showing an indication of the actual voltage
at the spot where the cable is going
into the unit being plugged into 240V.
That's indicating that we've got at least
12 and a half volts at that spot there.
If we were running it off of the portable battery
this may drop down as the battery gets flattened.
I think the bottom level there are shows about 9.6V
which indicates that your battery is probably flat.
So moving to the top of the display here there's 24 here.
The large figures shows the temperature inside the cabinet
at the moment below that it says 14.2
at the moment that shows the voltage at the input.
So it's is the transform of what's
about it's about 14 and a half volts.
If I was to use it I'll just try to 12V power source,
it shows 12.8 so that shows
the actual voltage going into the unit.
So the right of that is a degree Celsius
which shows 24°C obviously
but below that is an H, M and L
which shows the battery protection level.
And then at the very bottom, we've got max and AK
which shows the compressor speed now to change those
it all happens through this settings button here.
So if I press that once MAX flashes
I can press it again it goes to AK.
So that's now dropping the compressor speed down to AK.
Use the MAX setting to bring the temperature down.
Once the temperatures down switch over to AK.
Now, if we hold down on the settings button
it will then change to the battery protection level.
So how I've done this for about three seconds
that's now flashing the H press it again
it goes to L and then back up to H again.
Now your instruction manual shows what voltage
is these cut in and out
as they are there to help protect your battery
and that's now set.
Now on the other side of this panel here,
I've got Up and Down,
now this controls the actual temperature of the set
the temperature inside the cabinet.
And this can go up to
about 20°C or down to about minus 18°C.
So just get Up and Down
it changes and it'll flash
while it's flashing that showing the set temperature
and it flips back to the actual temperature inside.
Once we've finished pressing the button
it's pretty much all the how-tos
of the control panel will have a bit of a look inside.
So back to the top we've got four little
set of cup holders or supports
they just stop your drink from sliding off I suppose,
use them if you like.
Plastic handle on the front there
the latches on here the lid just hinges one way
it can't be reversed it just hinges to the rear here,
the lead can't be removed either.
It's actually hinged on there.
This looks like a can't see what it is
but it looks like a pin through the back here to hold that
on place and retaining the sort of strip here.
A little metal retaining strip to stop you
from going back too far.
In the lid is a firm strip
that runs all the way around here and that lines up
against this little ridge that runs around the top
of the fridge here got about three and a half centimetres
of insulation here pretty firm insulation.
And then we have a look inside
the fridge where there's two compartments,
one that's actually got refrigeration components.
The other one's more of a cool box.
We can get the total dimensions in here of each of these.
You're looking at 32cm from this edge here to this edge here
for the main compartment and about 26cm wide
and it's about 37cm from the base here to the top.
So we can fit upright and bottles
inside this as just a champagne bottle
and a 1.25L in a soft drink bottle.
So they do fit upright in there.
So you can you probably fit about six 1.25L
soft drink bottles in the back there
and that main compartments line
with aluminium and there's cooling elements around it
but this is still a compartment
at the back here is just a dairy compartment.
It's really cool from the cold air that comes
from this main compartment over the back.
And I can feel it's kind of cool against this wall here.
So good for butters and cheeses
but this measures about 16cm in depth this way
26cm across that way as well.
And it's about 20cm from here up to this edge here.
So you can actually fit longer things in the fridge
if you like across the top here
it's about 50 centimetres from end to end.
So you can fit longer things
but you've only got sort of four or five centimetres
of height there to do that with, and the fridge just dips
down or the lid dips down a little bit into this space
or at the back here we do have an LED light there
and there's a removable basket in here.
So the dimensions I gave you
for this front portion here do need to remove
a little bit for this basket.
That's kind of sort of protect the sides of the fridge
and stop things from freezing against the edge.
If it's a freezer, if you have a look in the bottom here
there have sort of got some little indents here
which I guess allows to sit a bottle in it.
If you have got a slightly taller bottle
it was sitting there, but I'm not sure how useful they are.
And once you put an actual basket in there
those little ridges don't become so useful anymore anyway
but hey maybe carry some water in there
and make it easy to clean it out.
It's pretty much all the features
of the 45L Transit Fridge
from Companion and just a little bit on features
you can get or additions you can get for it.
There's not much available.
It doesn't have any nuts it's in the bottom here.
So you can't physically mount it
to a fridge slot and there are no readily
available fridge slots specifically for this fridge.
So you'd have to find another 45
roughly litre fridge slot and rely on these handles
and some straps to sort of secure it down to slot
or to mounting points in the back of the vehicle
if that's what you want to do.
But otherwise it is reasonably lightweight only 16kg
as I mentioned you pull in and out of the fridge.
You can get a cover to go with it.
This is an optional accessory.
If you add this to the fridge
it's designed to make it easy to use.
So you've got openings
at each end here for the handles to go through.
So you can still act access the control panel here.
And then on the side
you've got a couple of storage pockets.
That's just on one side doesn't feature on the other side.
So you can keep a little bit organised.
Let's go to offer a little bit more protection
and also help a little bit
with the efficiency of your transit fridge.
One of the things to mention
is that it's not designed to be mounted
in a weather exposed area so it should go inside a vehicle
or inside a caravan where it's not going to be exposed
to rain and dust that sort
of thing is supposed to be in an undercover area.
That's all the features
of the Companion 45L Transit Fridge.
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