If you’re someone who enjoys experiencing the outdoors regularly, then having a cold place to store your food and drinks should be one of your top priorities. For that, there’s no better option than getting yourself a portable battery-powered cooler. Whether you’re simply planning a backyard get-together, looking to attend a tailgating event, spending a day at the beach, or even going on a camping trip, a cooler is one of the most essential gadgets for any outdoors activity. By having a battery-powered cooler, you’ll be able to keep your food and drinks cool and well-refrigerated to ensure they don’t spoil. However, the most common problem with coolers is that many models require you to stuff ice inside them in order for them to keep your goods properly refrigerated. As such, you’ll obviously want a battery-powered cooler that can keep your food and beverages refrigerated without requiring you to spend money and time refilling it with ice. This brings us to 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge.
The 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge is a high-end 3-in-1 cooler powered by either DC power, a solar panel, or by its removable solar-rechargeable battery, which can be used as a fridge, a freezer, and a deep freezer for keeping food and drinks cold or frozen without requiring any ice. It features a spacious 42-quart (40 L) capacity, a high-efficiency compressor powered by advanced thermoelectric technology that makes the cooler capable of reaching sub-zero temperatures as cold as -8°F (-22°C) when used as a deep freezer, a built-in bright LED light, a built-in control panel integrated with an LED display and button controls, and a USB-C output port that allows it to work as a power bank for recharging your devices. The cooler also boasts between 8 to 12 hours of battery life, and supports both 12/24V DC charging via its included DC cord and DC/AC adapter as well as solar-charging via its included 40 Watt solar panel.
This high-end 3-in-1 cooler powered is built to last, and it is also designed to be very power-efficient, as it can keep all of your food, drinks, and medicine properly refrigerated without needing any ice. You can use it for any sort of outdoors activity, whether that’s a simply barbecue at home, or even if you’re going on a road trip, to spend a day at the beach, or going out camping. Not only that, but you can also use it as a blackout-proof backup fridge for times when the power goes out in your area.
In case you’re still not convinced, check out our review of the 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge, where we go over everything that this high-end 3-in-1 cooler has to offer you.
DESIGN & SPECS
Starting with the cooler’s size, the 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge comes at a reasonably compact size, measuring exactly 25 inches long by 15.53 inches wide by 20.70 inches tall (63.5 x 39.45 x 52.58 cm), making it compact enough to fit inside most small car trunks.
Despite its compact size, note that this cooler does have some weigh to it, as the cooler weighs 27.55 lbs. (12.49 kg). Nevertheless, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as that’s basically due to its high-quality and sturdy construction.
What’s more is that this 3-in-1 cooler is also built with portability in mind, as it also comes equipped with a retractable handle, plus a set of two (x2) durable wheels, which make it easy for you to transport it by simply rolling it towards where you want to bring it to.
The 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge also sports a very sleek and stylish design, and also packs a high-quality and super-durable construction, as its entire body is built of an extremely durable and very thick high-grade TPU plastic, which also gives it an outstanding insulation for its storage compartment.
Moving on to the 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge’s internal components. In regards to its capacity, this 3-in-1 cooler features a fairly large refrigerating-and-freezing storage space that has a total capacity of 42-quart / 40 Liters. In other words, its storage compartment is spacious enough to store a lot of beverages and also quite a bit of food.
As said before, this 3-in-1 cooler can be used as a fridge (for refrigerating fruits, veggies, and cold drinks), as a freezer (for freezing ice cream, popsicles, and ice packs, and also as deep freezer (for freezing frozen meats and emergency supplies such as medicine under sub-zero temperatures), all without requiring any ice at all.
For keeping your food and drinks properly refrigerated / frozen, the 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge comes equipped with a high-efficiency compressor that’s powered by advanced thermoelectric technology, which makes the cooler capable of reaching sub-zero temps as cold as -8°F / -22°C (specifically when used as a deep freezer).
More specifically, its high-efficiency compressor works by pumping liquid refrigerant to suck up any heat that’s dissipated by food and/or beverages that are stored within its storage compartment. That same heat is then dumped away from your food and drinks by being pushed outside its storage compartment. This mechanism is what essentially makes the cooler capable of achieving its highly efficient cooling / freezing.
It’s also worth noting that the cooler also comes equipped with a built-in drain valve integrated at the center of its storage compartment’s base, which makes it easy for you to drain out water when necessary.
Best of all, the cooler’s storage compartment also comes integrated with a built-in bright LED light that makes it easy for you to search for any goodies when opening it during nighttime, even in low-light conditions.
INTERFACE / CONTROL PANEL
For controlling the cooler’s operation, the 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridges boasts a built-in control panel that features a simple and user-friendly interface.
Integrated right at the center of the cooler’s control panel, there’s a built-in LED display that conveniently displays the cooler’s current temperature (which again, can go all the way down to -8°F / -22°C).
Then, integrated at the left side of its LED display, and going from left to right, we have the cooler’s dedicated Power button, followed by a Mode button (used to select between its Fridge, Freezer, and Deep-Freezer Modes), while integrated at the right side of its LED display, we have its Decrease Temperature and Increase Temperature buttons.
Integrated directly below the cooler’s control panel, we also have its Power Input ports, which consists of a PV (photovoltaic) input port (for powering the cooler directly via the included solar panel) and a 12/24V DC power input port (for powering the cooler directly from a power outlet).
In addition, the Solar Go-Fridge’s also integrates a USB-C output port (located directly at the left side of its Power button) which, by drawing power from its internal battery, allows the cooler to also work as a power bank for recharging your devices.
BATTERY & BATTERY LIFE
For its power specifically when using the cooler outdoors, know that the 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge utilizes a removable 18650 mAh Lithium-Ion battery, which can offer you up between 8 to 12 hours of battery life when set to work in its Eco Mode, or up to 4 hours battery when set to work at its maximum power capacity.
When it comes to recharging its removable battery, know that this advanced 3-in-1 cooler supports 12/24V DC charging for recharging its battery, which can be done by removing it and then connecting it to the included DC cord and DC/AC adapter.
Alternatively, the cooler’s removable battery can also be recharged via solar-charging, which can be done by removing it and connecting it to the included 40 Watt solar panel (comes together with the cooler for free).
It takes approximately 4.5 hours for the cooler’s battery to recharge from 0% back to 100% power.
The cooler’s battery also comes integrated with a set of 4 battery status LED lights that display its current battery capacity (0% / 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%).
Lastly, we’d also like to note that you can also purchase an additional Go-Fridge Battery (sold separately at $169 per battery) as a way to ensure that you have additional back-up power for the cooler when its currently-equipped battery runs out of power.
FINAL THOUGHTS
To put it simply, this high-end 3-in-1 cooler is one of the best refrigerator-and-freezer coolers that you can currently find available on the market. With it, you’ll be able to keep all of your food, snacks, and drinks perfectly cooled or even frozen through hours on end, all without requiring you to purchase ice for its super-spacious storage compartment.
If you’re interested in purchasing the 4Patriots Solar Go-Fridge, know that each unit is currently discounted from its standard price of $897, and is now going for $847 (saves you $50). You can order yours online, directly from 4Patriots’s official shopping page.
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