- Hey campers , Ben from Snowys here today.
This is the Companion 75 litre Single Zone Fridge freezer.
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This is a large volume single zone fridge freezer,
probably ideal for caravans or larger vehicles.
If you need that cold zone
just all those extra big fish that you've been catching
or you'd like to take a lot
of cold food with you when you go camping.
(indistinct)in at 27 kilos measures
about 66 centimetres in length.
And that includes these handles on the ends here.
52 centimetres in depth.
That sort of includes the hinge
at the back and the latch
at the front and about 67 centimetres in height.
So the very sort of top this sort of arch a little bit here,
it's made on the exterior predominantly of a steel.
This is a steel there's grey material here
and there's plastic components
on the corners here around the top and also
at the base is a couple little plastic bumpers down here.
The handles and latches are all steel.
If we have a look around the side here
we've got these spring loaded handles here
with sort of a soft or not soft
but a firm and nylon Grande portion
in the middle there to make it comfortable to carry.
Metal latches on the frontier.
Two metal latches and if I flick it around to the rear,
we've got these we're shamed when we open it.
But the plastic covers over metal brackets.
They're not much more to see on the outside there's vents
down the bottom here and to a power input there,
which we'll show you shortly.
Got a control panel on the front end,
which we'll go into shortly as well
and on the other side here,
not much to see just a blank portion, same as the back.
There's nothing to say.
Sips advance for the compressor there.
Now with your fridge, you get a manual
which is going to show you a lot of other sort of
intricate details that we're not going to go into
in this video here today regarding battery voltage, cutouts
and all those sort of things.
So check that this covers all the different sizes
in this series, but you do get a 12 or 24 volt cable here
which has got either a cigarette or a merit plug on that.
You can set that plastic cap
off to turn that into a merit plug.
And you also get a two 40 volt converter.
Now these both plug into the same port on the side here.
So it's the same plug for both of those cables.
Plugs in here and I'm going to plug the base this now
into a two 40 volt power source.
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So we can show you how the panel on the front here works.
Oh, got the control panel
like had it on the front here, stills the compressor
obviously what we want it today now.
Just on the compressor,
it's an LG jewel speed compressor.
Not a compressor we've seen in a lot
of fridges that we've got in our range
but it is a reputable brands.
So it's not just sort of a cheapo that they
put in there just to bring the price down.
The control panel is located
in the bottom right hand corner here near the compressor.
It makes it easily accessible
no matter where the fridge is and installed
you don't have to reach
up over the back of the fridge to reach any controls.
I'll do a bit of a tour around of the panel.
And when you first plug the fridge in
it goes to the last sitting you had it on.
So if I was to unplug this fridge now
and plug it back in, this would go on automatically.
If I press this power button here, which turns it off
unplug it and plug it back in.
It remembers that I had it off last time
and it will be off when I plug it into the past.
So it does have a memory,
but this is the actual on off button on the unit here
which lights up this panel here.
Now there's a few things going on here.
A little battery indicator here that tells us
what the voltage is at the input
the cable going into the side here.
So it's anywhere from at 12.5 volts.
I think when it's completely full like this
if it's down to just sort of one bar is well below 10 volts.
So if it`s running from a battery, it's indicating
that the battery itself is getting pretty flat.
This here is showing us the temperature
inside the actual cabinet.
At the moment below this, we've got the battery
protection indicator that is controlled
through the battery protection button here.
If we press that it scrolls
between high,
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low,
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medium,
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high,
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low,
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medium.
So up and down, depending on what voltage we want it to cut
out on to protect the battery.
Read more information on that in the user manual.
Below that is a compressor speed
that's operated by the compressor speed button.
Here we've got Max and Eco.
Use max to cook, bring the temperature down quickly.
Use Eco at the temperature you want it to be at
so that you conserve battery power.
And the last thing to say is these plus
and minus symbols here'
which is actually setting the temperature inside the unit.
We press, plus, you can see this starts to flash.
That's the temperature that we're setting
and so it's target temperature for the compressor.
So I'll put that on five.
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It can go anywhere from plus 20 down to minus 20 degrees.
So you can use it as fridge or freezer.
Not both because it's just a single compartment
that'll flash and then return to a solid number.
That's indicating once again
the temperature inside the unit there.
So it makes a pretty simple operation
for the panel on the front here.
(Indistinct) have a look inside the fridge
in are the lid secured by these two latches does have a bit
of an assisted or soft-close sort of feature on it.
So it doesn't just open and close uncontrollably.
These hit metal hinges.
You can see the metal at the backend, but
underneath those plastic covers kind of open automatically,
and just give it a bit of a soft close feature
when you close it down.
Around the lid here, there's a nice, big thick seal
to keep the cold air trapped inside the fridge,
and that sits inside this Ridge around here.
You can see the edge has got about
six to six and a half centimetres
of PU insulation around the side here.
So really thick insulation.
Inside the fridge is removing a basket.
It's a single basket.
That's cut to fit the shape of the fridge.
So this is the cutout where the compressor sits
and we have a look inside the fridge.
We can see we've got one large compartment.
Talking about dimensions inside of the fridge
before I go into too many more details,
it's about 49 and a half centimetres from edge to edge here
about 35 and a half centimetres width this way,
and then there's two different depths.
So 52 centimetres there abouts from the bottom to
this sort of top edge here of the deeper portion
and about 34 centimetres on the top of this shelf.
So this point here as well.
So heaps of room inside the fridge here
and plenty of room for opera bottles as well.
I've got a couple of bottles here
at the moment we didn't put inside.
You can see in just about , well, not quite.
If is one on top of the other, but heaps
of vertical space for tool bottles inside the fridge here.
Now, the features inside.
If you have a look around the front
you've got a little led light here that just gives us a bit
of visibility at night
and probably a bit hard to save it right down the bottom,
here, there is a little sort of, it's not mesh
but it's an open plastic panel inside.
That is the temperature gauge.
So that's where it's reading the temperature
from inside the cabinet.
That's probably just worth mentioning
that the internal dimensions I gave you
probably just need to take a little bit off to
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allow for the winter, the basket here
cause that sits inside and just takes a bit
of width and depth off of that.
So if you're cutting it fine
just give yourself a little bit of room for error there.
I don't think I've actually mentioned current draw yet
either which companion says about 1.3 amps on average.
So that's usually measured
over 24 hours with a socket in and out.
So it's pretty good current drawer
for fridge of this size.
70 litres total volume heaps of space for loads of food.
Or if you plan on Cassius and pretty big fish
you're going to fit it inside there nice and easily.
So, a great fridge for family camping with big parties
or if you're caring for yourself and some other people
this is certainly gonna suit.
Others options you've got
with or other accessories you can get,
there's no free dedicated fridge slide for this guy.
And there's no nut set in the bottom.
Some fridges will have screws points in the bottom
so you can fix it down.
This doesn't feature that you're going to have to
use these handles to use a rope or straps to
actually secure it down in the back of your car.
It is designed to be mounted in a protected area like
inside a caravan or a vehicle, not on the back of the boat
or exposed on the back of a user or anything like that.
It needs to be in a weather protected area.
You can though get a protective cover for it.
As an accessories is available as an extra.
This is going to improve the efficiency
of the fridge a little bit
and also offer a bit of protection on the outside.
There's a slightly padded installation there.
It's got a panel here
so you can still use the control panel there
mesh around the side.
So the compressor can still breath,
and couple of just storage pockets on the front here
and few extra organisation options.
It's pretty much all the features of the 75 litre.
I think I've said 70 litre it is 75 litre fridge
and not 70 from companion.
Use it as a fridge or a freezer.
Tonnes of volume inside could even get you out of trouble.
If you're at home and your fridge breaks down or get hates
to drinks in there on Christmas day, cold on your deck.
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