Coleman Thermoelectric Cooler 120-Volt Adapter
June 6, 2017 - Comment
Convert your Coleman thermoelectric cooler to household voltage with this 110-volt power supply, so you can use your cooler for extra food-storage in your home.Keep things cool with Coleman’s thermoelectric coolers when you’re at home or off at a cabin with the Coleman TE Power Source. This power adapter converts the cooler to use household voltage (120 volts); Coleman’s thermoelectric coolers are normally powered by a car’s cigarette lighter power outlet. It measures 2.6 by 3.25 by 4.75 inches and weighs 1.1 pounds.
Product Features
- Power adapter converts cooler to household voltage
- For use with all Coleman thermoelectric coolers
- Compact — weighs just over one pound
- Measures 2.6″ x 3.25″ x 4.75″
- It measures 2.6 by 3.25 by 4.75 inches and weighs 1.1 pounds
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Works fine, around 40 degrees below ambient while on car battery. But 30 degrees below ambient on AC/DC converter. We recently used this for the first time on a week-long trip. I bought the AC/DC converter for the trip. While the car engine was running, and for short periods of time off, the cooler was powered by the vehicle. At night I ran a long extension into the nearest family house and ran it that way.
7 weeks of continuous use–PERFECT so far (see Update) I’ve been using this to power a 12 v cooler in the house for several weeks now. No problems, no extra heat (power converter base is slightly warm to touch, but not hot). It’s a great gadget. I plan to use it to travel cross country with the powered cooler, running the cooler off the car battery in the day and using this at night in the hotel. Trip last year with an unpowered cooler was a constant hassle, refreezing blue ice if I could get a room with a fridge, or dealing with ice and…
Poor design = waste of money and materials, choose a better design Don’t waste your money unless you are only going to use it once for a couple hours or are up to buying multiple times to replace it when it fails. Adapter gets extremely hot and has basically zero functional air vents, it is absolutely ridiculous that a small fan and/or more cooling vents are not designed into this rectifier. It’s design dooms it to a very short life after the warranty period due to heat build up and that is exactly what happened; after a few weeks of using it for a few hours…