Alpicool C15 Car Fridge 12v 15L Car Mini Fridge Car
Alpicool C15 Car Fridge 12v 15L Car Mini Fridge Car Refrigerator Portable Quiet Camping Fridge Freezer Vehicle Truck RV Boat Electric Cool Box for Driving Travel Outdoor Picnic
The Alpicool C15 and C20 car fridge freezer, it will keep your foods fresh and beverage cold. This series’ convenient, practical design are suitable for car, outdoor use. Light and compact size, easy to carry, enjoy convenience with LCD touch control panel adjusting temperature and other setting at your fingertips. Go outdoor, experience beautiful and make happiness.
ANTI-SHAKE
The tough and robust design allows it has a good performance on a dumpy road. Alpicool car fridge can keep running in slopes under 45 degrees. Durable, thick and reliable!
Fit Any Places
We provide two kinds of cords for your different purpose, AC and DC cord. You can use the fridge both indoor and outdoor scenes.
Efficiently Cooling and Freezing
Car fridge from Alpicool provide you a impressive cooling and freezing experience.
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| Capacity | 15 Litre | 20 Litre | 22 Litre | 18 Litre | 25 Litre |
| Power Source | 12/24V DC | 12/24V DC | 12/24V DC | 12/24V DC | 12/24V DC |
| Temperature Range | -20℃ to +20℃ | -20℃ to +20℃ | -20℃ to +20℃ | -20℃ to +20℃ | -20℃ to +20℃ |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 598 x 320 x 260 mm | 598 x 320 x 320 mm | 597 x 320 x 335 mm | 585 x 335 x 290 mm | 585 x 335 x 350 mm |
| Net Weight | 8.6 kg | 9 kg | 11 kg | 10.5 kg | 10.92 kg |
| Weight: | 9.6 kg |
| Dimensions: | 32 x 59.8 x 25.91 cm; 9.6 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Alpicool |
| Model: | CS-001 |
| Part: | CS-001 |
| Colour: | C15 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Alpicool |
| Dimensions: | 32 x 59.8 x 25.91 cm; 9.6 Kilograms |
| Origin: | China |
It’s a tetris job packing it and bring bags of fridge items, not bottles (this saves space for beers and milk!!). But for a compact camp fridge – it’s nice and cold and brilliant. I love it!
What a great little cooler chest. Not too big that it can’t fit in the car, but big enough for all your drinks and food for a long car trip. 5 stars.
Wanted this for months and months. Eventually but the bullet and it’s great! Big enough for 2 people and a few days away. Great performance and perfect for the micro campe
Bought the c15 for my campervan as it fits nicely under one of the bench seats. Have it running on solar power and my leisure battery and it’s very efficient and reliable. The app works really well too, and is a handy thing to have. Build quality is excellent and it holds just enough of the basics for a weekend away. Highly recommended and would definitely buy again.
All good. Make sure that the internal dimensions are big enough to fit the bottles you plan to use it for. I went for the largest size so that it could fit water and wine bottles.
It seems to keep things cold for several hours after the power is disconnected, however I have not measured this.
Wanted proper fridge instead of electric cool box for camper, as never cool enough in hot weather. The fridge is slightly larger and heavier- but cools or freezes as required, silent operation and easy to operate.
I’ve bought the fridge for use in my van, I’m a travelling industrial fitter that works from site to site looking after heavy industrial equipment and am away from home for up to one week at a time. I needed a fridge in which to keep my days worth of bait along with a couple of drinks and a few pints of milk – my amin meal on the evening being provided by a hotel, so I didn’t need a really large unit.
So, the usage:
The fridge really does cool impressively quickly, dropping from plus +20C to minus -4C in hardly no time at all – in this time the compressor runs continually but upon reaching the desired set temperature (user adjustable via the control screen or excellent phone app) the unit switches to maintain mode which has several options, or tolerances if you will. You can set the fridge to raise perhaps a few degrees before powering on again, or be really on the ball and maintain a perfect set temperature. The unit monitors the vehicle battery voltage and can be easily programmed to stop working if the battery becomes unsuitably low (perfect if for example you are connected to the main battery and require enough juice to be able to start the car/van/truck etc). During maintain mode, or eco mode, the fridge maintains the temperature to whatever you have set whilst using minimal power. The impressive thing is that this can be set low enough to be used as a freezer as well (you’ve got to choose fridge or freezer with this model, not both!).
The unit comes with two power methods, either a wall plug for 240V (UK) via a transformer brick or a 12v-24v cigar/aux socket plug (without the brick) – so plenty of options for power input. I have cut the aux plug off the cable and hard wired the fridge into my auxiliary fused supply so that it can be left turned on all of the time independent to my van operational circuits. (really easy to do with a secondary battery and charging kit) – but you don’t need to do this, just plug it into your vehicle cigar/aux socket and leave it to do its stuff – just set a low limit of perhaps 10.8v or something so that you know your vehicle will still start at the beginning of the day)
Storage:
It holds 3 x 3 cans of coke, 330ml stacked two high (the lid is recessed to take the height – so 18 cans of 330ml coke cans with space to spare). It will also hold 6 x 2ltr bottles of water/milk upright. The 12L version has enough space for a day or two of constant use – if it is used for just drinks for example then it’d easily be large enough for a week. If you are working/living with others then perhaps consider the larger version over the 12L model – but it is certainly fine for me. The advantage with a smaller unit is the efficiency and speed that the unit can cool the storage chamber, the power usage is minimal for long days and weeks away and it seems happy for me to turn it off after a week of work and leave it for a few weeks before turning it back on again – with rapid cooling once initiated.
The drawbacks:
Hmm, so everything has to have a negative I suppose… I’d say that the one thing that I notice is that the lid has to be ‘snapped’ shut rather than just naturally closed – you have to push down until it clicks shut and give a good pull for it to open. I think it’d be better if it had a magnetic close rather than the plastic interference fit of the current design for ease of use and improved quality feel for the user. Other than this, so far – so good. It seems to be reliable and continue to draw minimal power from my auxiliary battery setup, it’s handy now that I can make up a days food and store it knowing that I can reliably know that the unit will keep the contents in good condition regardless of the hot weather outside.
Would I recommend the 12L version:
Yes certainly for short breaks, days away, site work where other means are available for larger meals. If you’re buying for a family them I’d consider the larger version – but give Alpicool a go as their compressor fridges/freezers are really energy efficient and have great power saving features.
UPDATE:
Having now used the Alpicool C12 fridge for a number of months, I wish that I’d now bought a larger capacity model – the 12L is fine for storing a few essentials for a short number of days, but I have found the fridge to be far more use than I initially anticipated and it is now an essential part of my work setup. If I had my time over again then I would have paid the small amount extra to upgrade to at least the 20L model so that I could store more chilled stuff for those long drives to site jobs. The 12L is great for use in the cab as it is physically small, but for longer journeys I’d prefer a bit more room. As an update on the Alpicool system, still working fabulous and very efficient on battery usage, keeps everything fresh and cool even in the warmest of days. I’d still certainly recommend!!
I’m very impressed with this fridge, I power it from a 500w Jackery and very pleased, power consumption is good and it’s great to have cold drinks no matter where I’m working on any given day.
I have only had this since yesterday and it is already a game changer. There is something about a cold drink especially in the summer. I wish I had found this sooner. I wanted a fridge for the sub trunk of the Tesla Model Y, the G22 fits well with some space for air flow, I found that it gets to temperature quickly enough and keeps contents at the desired temperature well. The included 240 v adapter means this is ideal for weekends away as well as road trips. I recall having a camp fridge when we used to camp, they were loud, wouldn’t cool if the ambient was hot, would leave the contents wet all round just useless. This is the opposite. I am well impressed and very happy with my purchase.
I’ve waited to write this review until fully testing this fridge, I can agree with others in saying for the money this fridge is excellent.
We went on holiday to France and this fridge ran non-stop for Seven days, being switched from car to mains power overnight.
Kept all our food cold even when external air temps hit 32c. Never had an issue with battery drain on a Cheokee KL with an 80amp battery even when running for hours.
Worth every penny, great for day trips to throw drinks and sandwiches in and bring back cheese and pate in.
he fridge is well designed with good build quality, magnetic catch is a nice touch.
Quieter in operation compared with the Dometic fridge it replaced, that unit lasted 12 years, hopefully this Alpicool fridge will be as reliable.
The remote control via a phone App was a pleasant surprise.
Have used it for about a week now, when it arrived I noticed a small dent on rhe lid and few light scratch marks so contacted amazon, they said they would call me back the next day to make sure it was working OK and talk about the marks. They didn’t call back, can’t fault rhe fridge though not to happy about the marks on the lid, battery protection works great have left rhe car off for over 12 hours, fridge still cold and can still starts.
We then went off camping for a few days and kept the C12 in the boot of our Skoda Yeti, I kept the battery protection set at high and we was using the C12 as a fridge set at 6c and monitoring it via the Alpicool app.
Well it worked flawlessly and my vehicle battery ran the C12 for 48hrs without me having to start the car, I ran the C12 at max cooling until we arrived at our campsite and then switched it to eco mode, I think the final voltage reading was 12.2v which was displayed on the C12 and the app was great for checking on the unit when we was in our tent, we were approximately 20ft away and the app stayed connected.
Our food items were kept fresh and cool during our stay, with the C12 only fluctuating between 6 – 7c, the outside temperature was in the low to mid 20’s and our car was shaded most of the day by tree’s.
The high lid on the C12 is great as it allows you to mound up items within or store taller items compared with the C9, the size is perfect for a couple of people and does not take up a lot of room in our boot, I placed lighter items on the lid which is very strong, when I packed the car, making sure to keep the control panel and the 3 air circulation vents unobstructed.
The size and the volume of the C12 is perfect for us as a couple and kept essential items like milk, cheese, eggs, butter and some chocolate goodies nice fresh and cool, during our 2 day trip.
We think we chose the ideal size for what we need a fridge/freezer for and if the C12 continues to perform as it did on it’s first trip, then we will be very happy with our choice and I would definitely recommend the C12 to others, especially if your car packing space is limited as we take some large/ luxury camping items with us as well as 2 border terriers, so definitely ideal for 1-2 people and a couple of pooches.
I took this fridge on a 2 night camping trip. I had it in the boot of the car and powered it with a poweroak power station. It worked flawlessly and stayed at 4 degrees I set it to. I expected it to flatten the power station battery but it was still showing 60% when we got home. I will be installing this fridge in my campervan build and running it off solar. The fridge lid is a little awkward to open at times but other than that I highly rate it.
It’s brilliant. Properly cools down drinks and food all the way to freezing. I suppose my main issue is I wish it was a little bit better insulated. Ie after a long days driving everything is properly chilled. Next day my food is warmer and the day after that it’s a lot warmer. My only solution is to add ice packs to this container to keep food cold for a weekend, ie if you are in a car and not running it over a weekend or by mains. Still, I love it.
This fridge/freezer is amazing. Quiet and efficient. 5 stars!
The PSU is cheap junk! Tested the unit overnight after purchase on mains power. Occasionally when the compressor started, the fridge would ‘reboot” along with an annoying beep. The current surge was clearly triggering the PSU to shut down.
Ran it on car battery and it was perfect.
Ran it on an alternative 12V PSU and it was perfect.
So, brilliant fridge, PSU is just terrible, factor in buying an alternative 240v 12V/10A supply.
Should really demand a replacement PSU but I figure the quality is poor so why bother 🙁
We need to keep things cool in our new half built camper van, first looked at cooler but found they on cool to about 16c below ambient temperature. not cool so we found these on amazon and wow!! its a freezer, or a fridge. 20c below or 20c+ 25L was plenty for 2 people, kept my beer cold and all the food. Its quiet and effective. runs on 12V or mains 230, also 10hours cool down time so you can unplug and take to the beach or park with cool food and drink. And the big bonus is the Bluetooth, you can monitor it and change settings from your phone. I would definitely recommend.
While I’ve not had this long as of writing, I am fairly confident I spent my money well.
It’s not whisper quiet, but Alpicool didn’t make such a claim, just quiet. It does make a little noise when the compressor and fans kick in, but settles to a moderate hum in a reasonable time.
The dimensions are quite clear in the promotional images on the Amazon page, and are accurate from what I can tell. It fits a decent number of 500ml cans, yet to fill or measure, but it should hold 12 or so nicely.
the weight distribution can be jarring while empty, the compressor is on one side and makes it a little odd carrying it empty, but once it had some weight in the cooling compartment it balances nicely.
The carry handles are nothing to scream home about, functional, comfortable enough while carrying for a little, and don’t get in the way when not in use. They are large enough for most hands to hold, the ho have extra large shovels for paws might struggle for a comfortable grip, as well as those with baby fingers will likely not have the best time.
On to the lid. It seals well, and is a little stiff to open, however that likely works in it’s favor, it is well suited to be a camping cooler, and will, if not stop little hands from opening it, slow them down enough to keep them from getting at something you’d rather they didn’t, beer and other adult bevvies, medication, that sort of thing.
All that praise over, for those with weak hands, such as the elderly, or if you have a medical issue, best find someone better hands to avoid any accidental injury or pain.
The instructions are clear, though they do apply to lots of their products, so might take a few seconds of reading to get to what you want/need but it was intuitive to just wing it, and it has app connectivity via bluetooth to make it easier to use yet.
I do have a pretty major issue, the app asks for more permissions than I am comfortable with with no option to not give it everything it asks for. if it was less intrusive on it’s requests I’d not have any gripes.
I’ve nothing to say about the USB port or the care battery protection, as I’ve not used it, but it’s a nice extra I suppose.
I’ve tested the temps to low as -5C in an ambient of about 20C. It cooled a roughly 500ml bottle of water to 0-4C in about 2 hours from the ambient 20-ish. and froze to a slight slush in about 4. Obviously cranking it down to the lowest will give different results.
A petty niggle for me was the beeper, it was a little loud, those sensitive to sounds like that beware.
A less loud/lower pitch beeper would be welcome, maybe something that can be adjusted in app. It is at least just a quick little beep, and not an extended siren wailing in your ear attempting to shatter glass and eardrum alike, like some devices can have for no rhyme or reason.
I have only used as a fridge so far and it’s great I stay in hotels(for work) most weeks and perfect can take stuff with me and keep them cool nice to have fresh milk also a healthy meal rather than pub food also bought a folding trolley and wheel to my room and plug it in to the mains
Been thinking of purchasing a compressor fridge for years. The more popular brand are a little to overpriced. Theses units are priced right and are as good as the more expensive brands. I run the C20 via an Ecoflow River 2 max in my micro camper and works a dream. I’m considering purchasing another unit to use in my car. Can’t recommend enough.
Cools well and quickly. Unfortunately, although it’s quiet otherwise there is a very audible clunk when the compressor kicks in, hence the loss of 1 star. App control is an unexpected bonus.
This is my 2nd portable fridge/freezer and I love it!. The size is just perfect for taking on a train as it fits neatly under the seats. I have a small fold up trolly (with bunnies) that it fits on nicely so I don’t have to carry it about which is needed as this unit does not have any handles or wheels. I use it mostly as a freezer as I have multiple allergies so take food with me on breaks. It kept my food (including ice cream) perfectly frozen over a 5 day break. Seems very reliable. I will be using this compact freezer from now on.
Previously I was using a peltier-based (thermoelectric) cool box which drew 3.7a *constantly*, and would drain the fridge bank completely in under 24 hours so I fitted a 30mins on, 30mins off timer and whilst that just about worked at the height of summer due to lots of solar power (tested during literally the hottest days on record), even with bottles of ice to help it along, (or ice bought under way) it was still only achieving around 9-10 degrees C, so food was spoiling much quicker than it should.
As soon as the weather got to be less than monster sunshine the peltier setup quickly proved no longer viable. At the time I was only using one panel so my first thought was MORE POWER so added the second panel but even that wasn’t enough for the increasingly grey uk weather, so I had to go for more efficiency instead. gah!
First I tried to buy one of the yokekon fridges which looked pretty decent but unfrotunately the one I bought got damaged in transit and needed to return it, and there were no others to be had so was back to the drawing board.
Eventually after much frustrated digging through lots of reviews it seemed like the Alpicool devices looked like the most promising – and whilst this one (G22) was a bit more expensive than I could really afford, the ice-cube tray is what swung it for me.
I’ll need to double check but if memory serves me correctly it was using about 2.8amps when the compressor was running (which is less than the stated 40w which should work out to 3.3a) , and whilst obviously it needs to run continuously initially, it doesn’t really seem to need to run that often to maintain temp.
As soon as it arrived i let it stand for the required 6 hours, then tested it to 0C, then down to the max frosty setting of -17C and then put it in the van, set it to 2 degrees c and set off on my travels. It was a bit of a gamble as to whether it was going to work power-wise but thankfully it didn’t disappoint.
Even on a very grey weekend trip away where it rained most of the time (late october in uk) my fridge battery bank ended up with power left over. With the peltier unit it had always been struggling but thankfully with this one I had power to spare – which was just as well because it was very cold and I was getting very little from the solar. Even so there was enough juice left over that I could actually heat using that bank, which I very much appreciated because it was pretty much brass monkeys weather.
Even with the fridge maintaining 2deg C, running some USB stuff off that bank and even some heating, we still never dropped below 12.2v which is pretty impressive (3 days away, 2 nights, pretty much constant rain with just a few non-rainy interludes). The fridge never reached the safety disconnect voltage so can’t comment on how well that worked, which seems like a win tbh.
The build quality seems nice and there’s some well thought-out touches. There’s a little chain to stop the lid from bending back too far and damaging the hinges (which the yokekon doesn’t have), the light inside is very handy for when you’re looking for a late night snack without having to turn lights on (also not something the yokekon has) and the controls are pretty intuitive and work well. Tbh I wish our house fridge worked this well and the controls made as much sense.
I wouldn’t suggest sitting on it but other than that it seems sturdy enough, and given it’s a tiny van, any available flat surface is much appreciated. The insulation seems pretty good and my food stayed pristine throughout the trip. I literally didn’t need to even think about it the entire time, and to me when something is that good that you forget it was even an issue before, that’s a really good sign.
Apparently there’s an app which connects to the fridge over bluetooth, and which I didn’t really see the point of, but being a tech geek I tried out of curiosity. However it wasn’t happening on my android phone and just crashed when trying to connect, but really.. whatever, no big deal. I found I just set the temp and then left it alone, and didn’t really need to worry about it again, so not really sure why I’d need an app anyway.
There’s also a couple of nice thoughtful touches like as well as the current temp the display shows the battery voltage and it also has a usb charging point. I’ve not actually tried using the usb socket since my rig is littered with USB sockets anyway, but i thought it was a nice feature.
For me though, the thing that sets this fridge apart from the others I was looking at, and which convinced me to go a little over budget was the ice-cube tray. If you look on amazon you’ll see there’s plenty of similarly sized fridges, and some of the bigger ones have ice compartments but most of the smaller ones do not, and as someone who enjoys a G+T with ice along with her spectacular views, this was definitely a stand-out feature, and worked very well.
Some of the reviews seemed to be a bit underwhelmed by the ice-cube-making but perhaps the temp of the ice tray is affected by the temp of the main compartment. I ran it at 2deg C and whilst the ice took a while, it was solid all the way through and worked great.
You can actually run this as a freezer too – when I first got it and was checking it worked (after my previous disappointment with the damaged yokekon) I was very wary of the claims that it would reach 0deg in the 20mins or whatever it claims… but it absolutely did! so once it reached 0 deg C I cranked it all the way down to minus 17C or whatever the max was just to see if it would do that and it just did that too with very little effort.
Presumably it’ll use more power to maintain lower temps so prob bear that in mind but my freezer thermometer confirmed it was getting around the claimed -17C. awesome 🙂
Unfortunately I don’t yet have readings of the actual watt/hours used since I was running direct off the battery with the shortest possible cable to minimise attenuation, rather than through the charge controller, but I’m about to fit a power analyser so if that works out I’ll update this review with actual power usage figures over time.
It’s now been just over a week or so since I got back from my trip, and I’ve just left it running and despite it basically chucking it down with rain most of the week – the fridge is still just in the van doing its thing. Spot on 🙂
It does seem kinda ridiculous that in the house we’re getting price-gouged by the energy companies to the point that we’re sitting in the dark and cold and having to obsess about turning everything off, yet in the van there’s always cold beer and more power than I know what to do with thanks to free sun energy.. but hey.. strange times.
In conclusion – whilst I definitely overspent on this quite a bit, I really don’t regret it. I love devices that spark joy, and ones that spark joy and can bring forth icy G+Ts I like even better, and this does exactly that. Maybe I’m easily pleased, but being able to sit and enjoy a spectacular view and then just be like “ok well I might just have some ice-cubes with that” just seems like pure luxury 🙂
Great job Alpicool! Thank you 🙂