- G'day folks Ben from Snowys
this is the Companion 100L Dual Zone Fridge/Freezer.
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This is a big volume fridge with two different compartments
that you can use as a fridge and a freezer
or completely as a fridge, completely as a freezer.
So you can take your ice cream
and keep your drinks cold too.
Now, this guy weighs in at about 31 kilos.
Dimensions are about 91 centimetres in length,
and that includes the handles on the end here
about 56 centimetres in depth
which includes the latch and the hinges at the back here
and about 53 centimetres in height to the very top.
It's made on the outside of a steel,
this grey componentry here is a steel panel.
There are plastic sides on the lids and around the top here
and also on the bottom corners
there's little plastic bumpers as well, just for feet.
Metal components are the latches here and also the hinge,
which we'll show you shortly at the back here.
On the inside is metal but there's a plastic cover
over the top of it at the back here
and the inside lining, which you'll see shortly,
is an aluminium lining.
Having a look around the outside.
These ends we've got spring-loaded handles,
now you have to use easy if you're gonna tie the fridge down
inside anywhere and it's got a little plastic cover over it
so it makes it a bit more comfortable to carry.
See if I can flick it around so you can see the back here,
nothing much to see there.
A bit of a vent in the bottom corner there
for the compressor to breathe
and then four hinges across the back here
because there's two lids on the top,
which we'll show you shortly.
The front, we've got the two latches at the top,
one for each lid and a control panel
in the bottom corner here which we're gonna go into shortly
because on this side here, if we just come around,
we've got another handle.
The panel here which is hiding
the LG dual-speed compressor inside.
Now that's not a compressor that you may have heard
of as much in a lot of portable fridges,
such as Secop or the Sawafuji motor,
but it is a reputable brand
and it is used in a lot of sort of affordable fridges.
So I think we're gonna see a liability
for the price on this fridge here, it is priced really well.
It's about 2.3 amps average draw.
That's when it's set to about five degrees
obviously, that's gonna change depending
on how you use the fridge, whether it's fridge or freezer
and also the ambient temperatures on the outside.
Now you do get some cables, different cables to power this.
You also get an instruction manual
which is worth reading through,
'cause that's gonna show you a lot of extra things
that I won't run into detail today.
Like battery cutout, voltages
and a lot of different settings
that are just a bit much for this video. So check that out.
You get a 12-volt cable, so you can run it from your vehicle
that plugs into the same port as both your 24 volt here.
That's the same port that you use for the 240-volt adapter,
that I'm gonna show you shortly
and the end of this can change from a cigarette plug
to a merit plug too.
So you can run it from your vehicle
or from a portable battery pack.
And then you get this transformer here
which you can plug into 240 volts, so this plugs into here
and this is what I'm gonna run out off of today to show you.
We plug this into the port here
and I'm going to plug the other end
into my extension cable here and we'll hear the unit beep
and the control panel on the front will light up.
The control panel's located in the bottom right-hand corner
of the fridge here.
If it was up over the back, it could be hard to reach
if it's in the back of a car, but this makes it nice
and accessible on the surface on the floor
and in a caravan, you can easily access the control panel.
There's a few things going on here.
Starting with a little battery symbol at the top here,
that's showing full charge
and I've got 240-volt power that we're powering in here.
So that's showing that we've got
at least two 12 and a half volts at the power source
going into the fridge.
If that was down to sort of one or two
or down to one bar on this, it's indicating that the power
going into the fridge is down to well below 10 volts.
So if you're powering it from a portable battery pack
that's a loose indicator
of how much power is left in your battery.
If we move around we've got left
and rights compartment temperatures.
Now it's only that the L box or left box that's lit up here.
If you look hard there is actually an R box light there
but there's a few other features on here
that obviously only active on this particular fridge.
We've got left box temperature on the top there,
right box in the middle there.
And then below that, we've got
the battery protection indicator.
So at the moment, that's on high.
If we press the battery protection button here
this will flick to low, medium, backup to high again.
So we can scroll through
what battery protection level we want to.
And your user manual tells you what levels they are
so that you can protect the battery from going really flat.
Below that again is compressor speed,
at the moment that's on max.
If we press this here that flicks between max and eco,
recommend using max.
If you've got it on 240 volt
to bring the temperature down quickly
and then flick it across to eco so you're
getting the maximum battery life.
And then over above these two buttons here
are the actual temperature controls.
So this is the L box and R box so left box and right box.
So the left compartment here, if you want to
change the temperature at the moment is at 21 degrees.
If I press that it flashes
that showing it's set to minus six degrees.
So I'm gonna set that as...
Well actually, I'm gonna leave that as my freezer
that's the smaller compartment, so I might go minus 10.
Well, you can actually get right down
to minus 18 or minus 20.
There you go, minus 20 is the coldest setting.
So minus 18, I'm gonna set that one too.
It's gonna flash
and then go back to the actual temperature inside the box
and then the right box which is this one here,
use these buttons, I'm gonna make that as a fridge.
So put that up to say five degrees.
There you go, five degrees, it'll flash
and then go back to the actual temperature inside the box.
And we'll see that come down as the compressor runs.
Now being a large volume fridge, you might not
find you need to use the whole thing all the time
but you can actually turn one or the other compartment off.
So just say in this instance I just wanna use
the smaller left-hand side of the fridge
and I wanna turn the right-hand side off.
So if I hold down on the plus and minus here
we'll see that this temperature will go off.
So while it's on, we hold that on plus or minus
that's now switched.
The right-hand side of the box off,
so it's just the left-hand side that's operating now.
I have to have one side on, so if I wanted to then
switch that back to the right-hand box,
I can either hold down on that to turn the right box back on
and then turn the left box off.
Or if I just turn the left box off, this will flick over
to right box, the right box here will light up
and the temperature inside, so I'll do that now.
Hold down on these for about five seconds.
This will turn off.
It's now flipped across to the R box so the right boxes
is the only one that's on, which is the larger compartment
and that's the temperature inside.
If I want to turn the left box back on again,
hold down on that and flicks back on.
So basically hold down on both of those
until let's flick off
if you just wanna use one compartment.
And let's jump up and have a look inside the fridge here.
So two latches to open two independent doors here.
So a small compartment on the left, large on the right.
Looking at the lids firstly, we can see at the base here
we've got those metal hinges here
which kinda give a bit of an assisted close.
They sit up by themselves or sort of, they don't slam shuts.
So it just like is by itself,
the last portion of that there.
And each of these lids has got a nice thick seal that runs
around the top here and that seats in against the lip here
to make sure the cold air stays secure inside the fridge.
Now two compartments, they don't give an independent volume
for each department here,
so I can't give you a literage
for each of these independently but it's a 100 litres total.
Depth wise both of these compartments
are about 39 centimetres from edge to edge here.
Height-wise at the deepest point, we've got about
40 centimetres from the top to the bottom here
and that's the same in this compartment here.
40 centimetres from here to here.
And then we've got this shelf here
that sits up over the top of the compressor
and that's about 22 centimetres
from this point here to this point here.
And each compartment the length about 43 centimetres
from edge to edge.
And this guy here about 26 centimetres.
So two different volumes.
So you can sort of work out if you wanna have
more freezer stuff, wind the volume down on this side
and use that as a fridge or probably
what most people would use is this as a freezer,
where you can just store a few frozen items
and then move them over to a fridge section here
where you're keeping your milk and stuff nice and cool.
Features inside the fridge.
Each side has got its own LED light.
One on this side here and at the other end an LED light here
and underneath the LED light in each one.
There is a little panel here it's sort of a vented panel,
plastic panel and if we have a look
in the large compartment here as well
just on the bottom of the shelf here same thing.
Inside those are the temperature sensors.
So each compartment has got an
individual temperature sensor.
Now, these baskets do come out.
We can see they sit out from the edge a bit.
So those dimensions that I gave you before,
you need to just allow a little bit of extra space
in from that for the basket.
But these come out, it's just a single basket
that's shaped to fit over that shelf there.
Same on the other side here, two baskets you see inside
and that's just gonna protect the aluminium lining
inside there from being damaged.
But it does eat into your storage space a little bit.
But despite those baskets eating up
in your internal space a little bit,
there is still heaps of room for upright bottles.
So I've got just a standard 1.25 soft drink bottle here,
and also a champagne bottle,
they fit in there nice and easily.
So you're gonna be able to fit milk bottles,
juice bottles, champagne, wine, whatever you like
even riesling bottles inside there
without any problems at all.
That is the features of the 100L Dual Zone
Companion Fridge/Freezer.
Accessories that you can get with it.
There's no nut sets on the bottom,
so you can sort of permanently instal it.
It is designed to go inside a caravan
or inside a vehicle, not in a weather-exposed location
like on a boat or the back of a Ute.
And when you do put it in the vehicles
you are gonna have to rely on these handles here
which are riveted in, they're nice secure,
to secure down in the back of your vehicle.
Just some rope or some straps on that guy there.
And it does have...
You can get a cover, this is the cover here.
It's an optional accessory.
This is gonna offer a little bit more efficiency
for the fridge offer a little bit more insulation
around the edge here to keep the heat off,
silver lined inside.
It's also gonna offer protection
to the outside to prevent it from being damaged.
This has got vents around where the compressor is
so it can still breathe clear panel here.
So you can still use the control panel to the fridge
and a couple of storage pockets on there.
So that's an addition that you can get for your fridge.
Regarding fridge slide too, there's no readily available
fridge slide that you can get.
So you would have to kinda retrofit that
to another fridge slide
and just strap it down with those straps.
But that is all the features
of the Companion Dual Zone 100L Fridge/Freezer.
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