Whynter FM-85G 85 Quart Fridge Portable Refrigerator and Deep, AC 110V/ DC 12V, Real Chest Freezer with-8°F to 50°F Temperature Range, Gray

I'm a new owner to this brand and so I'm skeptical when it comes to portable refrigerator freezers that go in a big truck. My concerns are will they hold up to vibrations of driving over the road as many have troubled compressors that blink out as a result of vibrations. Many name brand units can be rather pricey but I try to go for one that has good ratings and hopefully it will last more than 2 years. 5 plus years would be super!Anyway, what brings me to this Whynter (Winter?) Brand was because my beloved Norcold 45 after 12 years of bliss no longer would refrigerate. It still works but, it freezes everything! I only want it to work as a refrigerator so here I am. Can't find my beloved Norcold anywhere on the market as they are either soldout from reputable places or folks are selling them at an outrageously jacked up price.So, when I found this unit, it checked off all the marks. The size is right for my space, it seems well built. It's actually taller and deeper than my old unit and I like that. It seems to cool down rather quickly to my set temperature of 36°. I have an inverter and it is running seamlessly on AC power without any issues. Mind you this is just day one but I'm writing this review to say that so far I like what this unit is giving me. It was priced very well and it is actually made very well and is working very well. I even bought the travel cover.It runs very quietly as I can barely hear when the compressor is running. The boxy shape doubles as a nice table actually. I plan to update after a month of using it and hope it will stay positive. I need to see how it handles after some vibrations of being over the road.Because it's built like a tank with all metal. I especially like the metal handles which are surprisingly comfortable when you're trying to carry it. It is heavy but manageable as I was able to get it into my truck but it was empty. Also the little lady who delivered it from Amazon had to walk upstairs with it in its big well packaged box and she managed without any issues so I definitely can't complain about it being too heavy. Although I don't plan to move it in and out, especially with food in it, so if that were the case I would be taking the food out before moving it.One slight drawback that I feel could be improved is actually where the controls are. Because they are located on the short end at the bottom of the right side, it would have been nicer to have them on the long end on the side where the unit opens and closes so that I can actually look back and see what the temperature readings are. So for extra measure, I have my thermometers placed inside the unit so that when I open the case I can actually see how cold the temperatures are inside. As I said before, I have it set the 36° but because heat rises and my thermometers are at the top they are registering at 40° so there's probably a plus or minus 4° on the temperatures. It's all fine with me as long as it stays under 42° which is in the safe refrigeration zone. Oh, and there is no way to change which way the top will open as it is fixed.So today I'm going to end with giving this a very glowing review and hope it stays that way as I will update this and let you know how things go after a month or so and hopefully after a year of using it. As it stands now for my first day of using, I would definitely recommend. It comes at a good price point, is well built, and it works well.UPDATE: Well, my update is coming about 3 months later..lol Good thing is that I can't report any problems. I did end up turning the unit so that I could always see the control panel and temperature. The lid is not reversible and so now the lid opens from the seat side or opposite my bunk. The temp inside has held steady as I switched it to the automic temp setting, which I believe works best. I believe the automatic setting keeps the compressor from working unnecessarily. I just plug into the DC outlet and go. I added a picture of the new positioning. Hope it continues to function without incident. I still would recommend.

I have had this portable fridge for several years now, the smaller dual zone variant. It fits in the back of my Prius, but it is big and heavy. The way I use this is if I move it by myself, I have it empty to minimize the chance of back injury as it is heavy. I keep around grocery bags so that I can quickly move the food around separately from the cooler. If I have help moving, than sure, load it up / keep it loaded up and move it around that way. One side of this portable fridge is definitely heavier than the other, so say you want to piss off your significant other if you are stronger than them, have them carry the heavy side.The fridge I have is a solid piece every way. It has been stored for a while at times and run continuously for years as well and just does the job every time. I periodically blow out the dust from the internals with an air compressor. I usually set the smaller compartment to 0 F and the large compartment to 38 F and it holds these temperatures well. A great thing is you can set either side to whatever you want and this fridge will do it for maximum flexibility. Then 115V AC powers it, 12V DC from your car / truck / van powers it, and even 24V DC from a battery powers it.For running on battery, I normally hook it up to a 24V LFP battery that at the time of this writing is 14 years old. The estimated average power draw from the battery is 30W.Maybe something worth considering as 12V is such a low voltage. With 24V, I can run this fridge, my hobby charger at its highest power settings, USB buck based chargers, and a DC to AC power inverter and keep the wire gauge down a great deal over doing 12V. If say you want to go camping, if you pick up a current day 24V 100AH LFP battery, my calculation from tests on my 14 year old LFP battery is you could go ~3 days running this fridge in reasonably nice weather and longer if it is cold out. If you add a DC buck converter based USB charger, you could also charge your USB devices such as your cell phone and USB charged LED lights directly off of the battery. If you want to do some hobby stuff while camping, you can hook most hobby chargers directly to a 24V battery like this. You may want to get somewhat good at soldering and crimping so that you can have a nice wiring setup to hook everything together or maybe find someone who can build the wiring harness(es) you want / need. But really, if you are out to enjoy the outdoors on a car camping trip and there is no electrical power at your camping spot, you could have this fridge, a good LFP battery that you take care of (LFP batteries only last basically forever if they are not overly abused or neglected), your phones and tablets, and USB charged LED lighting making up the electricity side. Then have propane based cooking and heating / fire, and be good to go for days at a time. To extend things out, if you have a full hybrid Toyota, these make great quiet generators that won't annoy your neighbors, but they do have a significant residual power draw to run the car's onboard computer systems, meaning you don't want to leave the car running for days at a time. (My gen 3 Prius for example draws 200W to run the car's onboard computers.) So say you put in a 1,500W pure sine inverter in the back where the battery is for a full hybrid Toyota and keep the power draw while charging up your LFP battery under 800W as these cars tend to only have a surplus power of 800W when you turn off everything in the car while running such as turning off the lights and air conditioner and such (turning off the air conditioner is really important if you don't want to waste away all of your fuel), you just plug in your <800W LFP battery charger into that and charge up your 100 AH battery for a little while. Something like a 20A charge is perfect because you need to account for conversion losses and this will stay under the limit after conversion losses while also shortening down charge times so you can turn the car back off. Then you are good to go electricity wise for a few more days off of the battery all without burning too much fuel in your car. For propane, you start getting into bring something bigger than 1 lb tanks, say in the range of 15 lbs to 30 lbs and get some refillable 1 lb tanks and then refill your 1 lb tanks with the larger tank. Then you have all of the energy you could really want for camping and not go too crazy on all of the stuff you bring to make it all happen. Granted, you could also have say a small propane generator, but this gets into partial loads on a fully enclosed inverter based generator to try to keep the noise levels down to park regulations, still annoying neighbors if they are not inside of RVs, regulations on when you can run the generator, and so on. Also, you start thinking about that propane tank definitely being of the 30 lb variant for the extra fuel to run the generator as well as doing everything else you are looking to do with propane. Granted, 30 lb is a great size to take down to a local refueling station as refueling is a lot cheaper than tank swapping with say 15 lb tanks and some of these propane refueling places have a $20 minimum charge for refueling, so a 30 lb tank will bring you over this minimum.But yeah, if you are willing to heft this beast around and can find a big enough space to stick it, you can do all kinds of stuff with it and fit it into various master plans for what you want to do. This could be some extra fridge space, the iceless 'cooler' you have out back for your BBQ / get together / party. A battery powered cooler you bring out to the beach if your friends are willing to help you heft it around and you don't mind them mocking you for having such a beast of a cooler. Or even something you bring car camping if you can find the space for it and your significant other is happy about how well it keeps food the right temperature and doesn't mind the weight as long as you either help move it or just do all of the moving around yourself and don't complain about how your back feels after or maybe even get a couple of your kids to help carry the other side.