coming up in this video we review the Makita DCW 180 cooler and warmer box
ignoring the instructions and those other reviews out there should you buy one based on our review
to do that we need to get scientific with our drinks what temperature do we start at and what
temperature do we like those drinks to be served at so let's load up the cool box and put it to the
test how quickly will it cool those drinks down what temperature do we like them served at let's
adjust it to get there perhaps there's an argument about that drinks temperature but we then wait
and wait and wait but are the results worth waiting for it's a yes from me as
we crack open a can of Irn Bru it's a review of two half as we ramp it up to 60 degrees c
and pop down to our favorite Indian takeaway the owner Mohammed takes a keen interest in
this newfangled technology takes it into the kitchen and comes back with some advice about
food serving temperatures so sit back with a cool drink and a warm takeaway and let's dive in
it's 28 degrees c here at Line Side studio so we decided to come back to the patio area and
if you just look out there Gordon you can see our recycling facility in clear view and we're going
to take a deep dive into the cool box element of this straight away so can we get it open i want
a drink can i just stop you there again yeah it's a skip and 28 degrees c is not something we often
mutter those words in England and in Skipton but you're right let's just pile in let's have a look
at some of the great features of this Makita cool box warm box later um well let's start with the
display of an LED display so look at you can see the battery levels of the two batteries in there
there's our current temperature you can raise and lower the temperature with the up and down arrows
that easy so i'm gonna set that at zero we'll come to that later on this button here selects
between the uh heat and cool modes and you can we haven't quite figured out how to do it yet
flip across the Fahrenheit if you're from the 1800s and the old on off button there so that's
the controls dead easy to use uh yeah if i was on site i'd be making your uh your cold
uh cold drinks warm but uh there we go so so we're gonna have a look inside or we're
gonna have a look at some more features on the outside I see a strap hear there's a power wall
it's the strap yet so you can have a strap now this box weighs in at 13 kilos empty
now think about that 20 liter capacity that could be an additional 20 kilos that suggest you're not
going to be using the strap very often and you're not going to be running with it you're probably
going to go for the wheels okay and the handle that pops up there so you can you can you can
drag it along but it's you're not still not going to be running fast with the 30 kilos
dragging along behind you power supply options uh the minute we're running our battery it does come
with this lead so you can power off a automotive adapter so i used to go the cigarette lighter
12 or 24 volts so big hello to all you truckers out there there's an option for you or you can
have a mains powered option so the batteries themselves live in this cabinet under here
could you run it off one it will run off one or two batteries it works its way through one battery
then moves on to the next one the ones we've got in there weren't fully charged when we put them in
um word on the batteries it does not come with batteries so this this uh this device
is a significant investment um but if you're not a Makita LXT battery user isn't there a couple of
different varieties isn't it yeah we'll come on to that again some of the issues there if you're not
in LXT batteries you're going to have to invest in in some batteries which can again add some money
to it and there is also we love this uh a USB a USB charger yeah it's a it is the B type socket
uh it would be uh would be better if they move that across to the C that we're starting
to see on more and more products and possibly boosted that from 2.4 up a little bit higher so
anyway that's that's the power supply i guess what everyone's really waiting for let's see what's
inside me personally i would suggest let's have a look what you've hidden in here Gary
nice so as we said 20 litre capacities or as we would call it plenty of cans to keep you going
through the day and move into the apres site as you go with the yeah we've got some chilled
beers in there as well okay yeah barley based beverage and some food i see all my favorites
okay that's uh Fry's Chocolate Cream okay so 1761 okay see your birthday and i've also got some soup
in here as well so uh you can have the chocolate and I will have this it's going out a date soon so
this needs to be eaten today with your old nashers as i suppose that's as hard as you can chew on
uh and oh dear me Dr Pepper pop that one there look at that it's all ready for me yeah well i'll
put already a 10 with my Irn Bru yeah never give me Dr pepper it's like Gremlins yeah
majority of that's made up by prune so i would suggest that's why you've had a dodgy stomach
after you've had that one yeah don't uh yeah don't don't go there on that so um it does a fantastic
job of keeping these cool but that would be great then wouldn't it because it's a cool box yeah
there is a seal around here should be able to seal because that keeps a good IP rating it IPX4 so in
other words if you're on site with it it won't get full of dust with it yeah but i'd all suggest the
sealers actually also to uh to keep the keep the keep the cold in uh and it is only IPX4 when it's
running on battery right okay plug the adapters in there's a little hinged flap down the side there
it loses that rating uh if if you don't have that uh fully engaged good spot
really good yeah so no downsides at the minute well a mild downside i would suggest it's quite
heavy isn't it to lift yeah it is and yeah i mean if you're if you're lumping 20 kilos of drinks
around anywhere then plus the weight of that yeah it is there's no way around that but it is robust
that you can sit on top of that if you want to guard your uh you want to guard your drinks
i like it yeah there you go you're set for uh you're set for life ready for another hard down
see you've got the Makita fan out that's blown some slightly less warm air at me than uh the
ambient temperature not much and we have reviewed that fan if you haven't seen that review i will
leave a link in the description um which i guess you know great you know it'll keep things cool for
a long time so up to if you have two uh six ampere hour batteries right okay LXT range right okay
yeah it'll keep the cool for it'll keep it at five degrees c for 17 hours which is nearly as much as
our working day would say oh just about to suggest that's just about going to do us for that working
day now we think there's some top tips there let's do a top tip on keeping things cool
because that's what it's all about it took a long while to get it cool yeah that's the
problem absolutely so you get a Morrisons you pick yourself up a packet of water yeah chuck it in 10
minutes later it can be cold no and that's that's the kind of downside this and if you if you look
at some of the other reviews out there it does get down to temperature on that display pretty quickly
however that doesn't mean the stuff that you put in there if it's not already the cold temperature
will be at a satisfyingly cold temperature we were finding a big discrepancy with the temperature it
was suggesting it at and the temperature of the stuff in there because obviously the stuff in
the middle is going to take a lot longer to get cool isn't it yeah and that's the thing
so what's your top tip top tip is to get stuff out the fridge that's already cold and pack it
and then turn it on whether it be on the mains or on the battery it's brilliant then because it
keeps things cool it will get things cool but it does take a considerable amount of hours wasn't it
yeah i mean we were saying to get to that satisfying temperature and for me that is below
five degrees c um yeah you're talking four hours and and remember so that battery life is based on
keeping things cool to get the heat out of objects that are ambient you've got to use a lot of power
so you're not going to get you know dump them inside and you know you'll you'll probably get
there by you know 8 o'clock in the morning put your drinks in there and you might buy lunch time
have a cold drink right somewhere mid afternoon the battery's probably gonna run out okay so we've
gone for a long day and you're gonna make it but again top tip there is get things that are cold
put it in there and it's brilliant for keeping them cold also goes the other way doesn't it it
does yes it's not just it just keeps things cool but we'll just jump in there you can't do both of
these at the same time we can get it as hot as 60 as cold as minus 18 which is the same as a freezer
isn't it it is yeah we haven't tried the ice cream setting yet see how that goes down on site
popping out your chest freezer and out comes the ice pops so you can go as high as 60 can't it
yeah which is um again and you got to be a little bit cold you're not so much bothered
about cold but when you start talking about keeping food yeah warm warm yeah you can get
some troubles and it will keep at 60 degrees c for how many hours is that one well it's a
considerable number of hours and that's four hours yeah which again but that's 60 worries me though
yeah i mean and and it was quoted in some of the reviews we've said that 60 is the safe temperature
for hot maintaining food at a hot temperature okay yeah which it is in America it is in and
in Australia in Australia yeah it's a tad more over here though in Britain it's 63. and there's
a recommendation that you're above that 63. so maybe we we spoke to our good friend Mohammed down
at the uh Mastab's and he suggested you'd like a temperature near a 70. wouldn't you yeah yeah so
they were a bit concerned at that and again you wouldn't you know again put something in cold
at the start of the day and try and warm it up in here it's not a warming up device i wouldn't
i wouldn't it's probably it's not an oven or a microwave again so that goes back to what we
did with the fridge you put something that's already warm into it and it maintains that
temperature as it does with the cold stuff yeah you don't put something in cold first thing in
the morning when you're in a van your pasta is freezing cold your Ginster's in there yeah get
it out at 12 o'clock you expect to be piping hot yeah and it's that just worry me a little bit on
how long it would take for that but um yeah but bringing our takeaway back from the Indian last
night it did a fantastic job yeah it did and uh maybe there's a a chance for us to branch out into
something we call Just Warm maybe yeah when we said just i think that i did i think i just said
it's Just Warm so maybe that's an option there for you know we've all had those things delivered to
our house and i would suggest if we use the tag Just Warm we'd actually be one ahead of
most people that i've had turn up at my front door yeah so that's that um some of the other problems
well problems okay so the first big one and i thought great it's it's in it's a substantial
unit in terms of price it doesn't charge the batteries all right it doesn't come with them
and it doesn't charge them so even if i connected to the mains of the batteries in there the minute
i obviously pull out i'm not going to be charged those batteries any more than they were before
yeah sticky so yeah so you're going to still have to have your battery charger somewhere
because obviously your batteries are used for cooling you can't use them in your
drill or your other power tools so that's the first one so it doesn't charge batteries it
would have been fantastic if it does yeah what do we know a lot of the Milwaukee products we see now
have a charger built in as well no one keep watch this Milwaukee product you're talking about
Milwaukee oh yes we've done some Milwaukee stuff before haven't we yeah so that and then the second
one is there's this thing about battery types now so this is LXT yeah and yet we have a lot
of Makita products that are XGT 40 volts higher different battery charger and they can't cross
cross bond them so yeah yeah so that is a you know would have been so easy wouldn't
it to have that capacity to take both batteries it's not complex electronics to
mess around with voltage it could have could have been so easy yeah and again when we're
pulling it along if you think about that it will also cut itself out for an angle
yeah i'd suggest you move your can at this point you're going to tilt it out just leave my cold
beverage down there i'll bring this one in yeah so about i tilt this up so again you'll see it
gets to a point where it will cut out okay let's have a look yep there we go there you go okay
the tilt setting um so yeah and that happens if you tilt it sideways or too far up on its end
there i'm devastated your soup wasn't open well you would have been cleaning it um oh so this
good if this handle locks possibly because it is a little bit just yeah it doesn't quite feel it's
not like trundling your suitcase around an airport as you're doing it um but apart from that robust
year and there's one other feature here okay one other feature oh come on then bring us one out
it's down on the side here cheeky little bottle opener is that a barley biased health drink i
see you've got that it is yes just check i'll just just check it all out for the review for the cold
is that cold we're gonna have to have another check oh that is nice is it you sure
that is satisfyingly cold i would be very happy at the end of the day to
show off in front of people you know they're all being sweating sweating away on the site
we haven't got one of these fans and do yeah pull out one of them at the end of there fantastic
as always we're interested in your feedback have you made the significant investment in order to
own a box that will be cold and hot depending on the selection from Makita if you have please
leave those comments were you thinking about getting one and maybe the price and some of the
slight downsides have made you reconsider or if you watch this review and you're going
it's a must-have product for me i'm a massive fan of the Makita you're eating my chocolate bars
i'm a massive fan of the Makita i'm a massive fan of the Makita products
and obviously this is another one i want to add to the sweeter products we've got we've
also got the heated vest that we never mentioned in this as well check out that review it's perfect