Engel MR040 Portable AC/DC 12 Volt fridge-freezer (40qt)

I bought this freezer so that I can freeze meats and make ice when I'm camping or on my vacant, undeveloped land. I've been traveling with it for the last month or so, and I can say it works great. It'll freeze a bottle of water over night, and is also cold enough to freeze meats. I've run it off of AC, in my car (plugged into the cigarette lighter), and also off a 12V deep cycle battery, and has worked consistently from all power sources. It'll work just fine even in the heat, especially at the highest setting. At night, or if it's cool, you might be fine using a lower setting and save some power.

The only downside is its weight, but the handles are sturdy enough that you won't have to worry about carrying it around (hopefully with someone else's help).

I am happy with Engel MR040F-U1 after my first month of use in a van-camping environment with 117 VAC. "Engel" is German for "Angel", it is designed in Japan, and the compressor has only one moving part, the piston; that is fewer moving parts to wear out, less energy-loss to friction and heat, and more energy-efficient operation. Mine is holding a fairly steady 33F degrees on my wireless refrigerator/freezer thermometer. The top is a good table surface for cooking with my cool-on-the-outside rice cooker. I sleep with my head cushioned against the compressor end, so when it cycles on, I hear the hum and feel the vibration. Sawafuji, the Japanese company, is existing from year 1908, and after 100 years of operation, in year 2008, have introduced this lightweight dentand rust-proof plastic-exterior model among their regular steel-exterior models.

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I just purchased an Engel MR040 fridge/freezer based on the companies' reputation and consumer reviews of Engel. Product looks very durable and cools quickly and relatively quietly.

I bought the unit to install in the cuddy of my boat, to be fixed mounted with the Engel transit slide mount.

Following the instructions that came with the transit slide mount I removed the rubber corner protectors and installed the 4 round mounting feet.

Problems -

The problem is that on the compressor side of the unit the round feet come in contact with bolt heads on the bottom of the unit, and the round feet will not sit flush against the bottom of the unit. I fixed that by notching the feet so that they would clear the bolt heads.

Also, one of the bolts that secures the round feet the unit on the compressor side when tightened makes contact with something inside the unit causing a loud noise from the fan (since the rubber corners were removed I could see that the head of the bolt was touching something inside the unit so I removed that foot and the noise went away so I inserted a spacer between the bolt head and the foot and secured the foot to the unit and now the foot is secure and not contacting the compressor and the fan noise went away.

Engel needs their tech guys try to put together the MR040 with the transit slide so they can address these problems.

The fix could be prenotching the round feet and supply shorter bolts to attach the round feet.

I am not so impressed that I had to re-engineer the fridge, since I spent a lot of money for it, and I'm sure that other not so "handy" buyers would not been able to figure out how to do what I did.

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