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Old 04-19-2018, 07:29 PM   #11
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1.16 cu feet is only 77% of the advertised 1.5 cu ft. This thing is much smaller than advertised...
Oh, you wanted to know the interior size with the insulation in place?


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Old 04-19-2018, 08:38 PM   #12
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Sorry to hear it Greydawg. I figured you did your homework but I was thinking that was awful small for full timing. ... The big steel TF 70 liter I have is about the only way I could do a chest fridge for full timing. It's a rebranded IndelB TB74.

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10 gallons (43 quarts, 41 liters) was going to be just barely sufficient, as I don't keep lots of cans or bottles of drinkables in a cooler (or in a house fridge, for that matter). My 55 quart ice chest has always been more than ample for weeks on the road, and about 20 percent of the space is taken by ice. I tend to hit a store or farm stand every 3-4 days for fresh produce so I don't need to carry food/drink for a week+ at a time.

When I fulltimed years ago with a 2.3 cf dorm-style RV fridge I never filled it.

So, if the TruckFridge had been a true 41 liters I would have been happy with the footprint vs capacity tradeoff. But not for 33 liters, badly designed.

The guys at TruckFridge were great. They paid for the return shipping and are refunding my purchase price and shipping. When I suggested they should correct their website to correctly show the capacity, they said they had been trying to get accurate sizing data from the manufacturer, and blamed the translation from Italian. In other words, they know their sizing claims for the IndelB units are wrong.

Back to the drawing board. I've been reading a lot of cooler reviews (rotomolded and 12V) and a common complaint is that the capacity claims by the manufacturers have very little connection with reality.
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Wow, well I do know that all their fridges are Italian rebrands, either IndelB or Vitrifrigo, which are sister companies anyway I believe. Weird.

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