Off Grid Cold Food Storage: Cooler vs Solar Refrigerator
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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Welcome back to "Miles from Nowhere"! In this exciting episode, we tackle one of the biggest challenges of off-grid living: cold food storage. Join us as we compare the age-old cooler with ice to the innovative SetPower TC75 solar refrigerator. Our journey into the depths of the national forest is about to get a lot cooler!
Living off-grid in our historic gold mine cabin nestled in the rugged Colorado wilderness, we’ve relied on coolers with ice for years. While coolers are a lower-cost option to start, they come with their own set of hassles-melting ice, limited space due to ice, and the dreaded food leaks into icy water. It's been a practical but imperfect solution for keeping our food fresh.
But now, thanks to the SetPower TC75 solar refrigerator, we're experiencing a game-changer in our off-grid lifestyle. Solar refrigerators are convenient and clean, but they do require a solar power setup. We'll show you how we've integrated the SetPower TC75 into our solar system and discuss its features, benefits, and the pure joy of enjoying ice cream for the first time in five years at our remote cabin.
In this episode, you'll see:
A detailed comparison between coolers with ice and solar refrigerators.
The challenges and benefits of each method.
Our hands-on review of the SetPower TC75 solar refrigerator.
How we set up and maintain our solar power system to run the fridge.
The sheer delight of having cold treats off the grid!
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Keywords: off-grid living, cold food storage, solar refrigerator, SetPower TC75 review, cooler vs. solar fridge, off-grid cabin, wilderness living, solar power setup, off-grid ice cream, sustainable living.
I did this when it wasn't cool. There were no cool toys we had anything from old propane fridges to a locker in a snow drift and old iceboxes work good for keeping the food and ice separated.
We’ll never be cool - but we will have the time of our lives being here. Thanks for watching!
Those units are great my friend uses one at deer camp it’s really awesome we charge the batteries for it by solar panels lasted all 4 weeks at camp
It’s been really nice having it. I can’t believe we waited this long.
I just convert all my ice to liquid form, it stays good that way for ages
Consider steam - it can also run your train.
How come you don't raise chickens, snd veggies. Solar is the way to go for sure.
Yrs ago i built a cooler. 1" thick plywood. Bubble foil, 4. 2x3's , 3" thick high density pink or blue insulation. The 2x3's are the braces for the plywood. Chock all seems before you screw them on place. Next bubble foil covering the plywood. Next install the high density foam. Cut the top out to fit inside the sides. This cooler is 3'x3'x24" wide. We put a block of ice 30 pounds. Closed it and left it in the driveway all summer long. In the late fall we looked inside. There was about 1/4 " of water. Its big heavy but holds the cold for a long, long, time. If you know someone who has a freezer that goes down to minus 50 below you can make salt ice. Its Rock Salt mixed with water. You want enough Rock Salt to make a slurry. Usually 2 cups per gallon of water. The cold of that freezer will freeze solid. This type of ice takes a very long time to melt. Boss of the Swamp on you tube talked about this a bit. Ive do it with a fish called a Poogy. We could keep hundredsof the in the slurry for months. Just ad fresh ss the day we caught them fot sale later on in the Stripped Bass season on Cape Cod. Ma.
We are in the building infrastructure phase. We can afford to shop for food so we do - long term we need to get our garden and livestock going - but it’s lower on the the priority list.
There's fridges that run off of propane....look at most RVs
This is true. However, they do have issues running in extreme cold. The problem is that burning propane creates carbon monoxide, so they need to vent outside. This vent also is needed to have a temperature difference for the condenser to work. In the winter the delta T is not enough for the condensation cycle to work. They tend to freeze up. Four our cold weather - they just are not an appropriate option.
From Temu u can buy an ice maker for you to make ice out there
Now that’s living in luxury!
You live off grid but depend upon grid
In one way or another we all depend on the grid. Raising our own food comes next - but infrastructure is more important at the moment.