Whynter FM-62DZ 62 Quart Dual Zone Portable Refrigerator and Deep Freezer Chest, AC 110V/ DC 12V, Real Freezer for Car, Home, and RV, -8°F to 50°F Temperature Range, Gray, Fridge + Power Supply Cord

As the description states on Amazon, don't confuse this with plastic ice chest style 12v coolers. This is a heavy duty unit with steel construction. As such, it's weight is heavy so it's a trade off there. But if you need a large capacity heavy duty unit, this will work for you. This has a large capacity. The removable wire baskets make it easy to fill and empty out food and drinks. The controls are easy to access and manage. It appears well made heavy duty construction with a nice fit and finish. I harvested a large mule deer in Montana. All of the boned out meat from the entire deer was easily fit into both sides of the fridge/freezer. I adjust temps on both sides down to quickly cool the meat. A thousand miles later I arrived home, and the meat was perfect and ready to process. It would have easily frozen the meat on both fridge and freezer sides, had I elected to turn the temps down lower. No more large ice chests, messing with ice or dry ice to keep harvested game meat from spoiling! Interior was easy and simple to clean. I also use this unit as my fridge/freezer in my Ford Transit for long trips and camping. The capacity of this unit should keep a couple of people in food and drink for a week or so. I run it off the vehicle while traveling, and off a portable solar generator (Jackery) at night. Works perfect. The unit is quiet and did not bother us when sleeping just a few feet away. I highly recommend this unit.

Update - 9/2021: I had my original fridge for ~4 years before it stopped cooling. The compressor would run, but over the course of a week stopped cooling completely. Whynter was pretty good, they took delivery of my old unit (I dropped it off at HQ while on a road trip) and then diagnosed the issue as a coolant line blockage. They shipped me a replacement unit with updated handles, latches, etc. I ended up paying $200 for the replacement (including shipping). I've had the replacement unit for a little less than 3 yrs, it has been running 90% of the time, and mostly on DC in my truck off of solar and battery. The unit was working great until 2 days ago. The fridge is no longer cooling. The compressor is running, and things sound "normal" but zero cooling is happening. The failure occurred when the unit was stationary in my garage. It worked one day, and then failed the next. I called support and they will be helping my diagnose, but I don't think I'll have much luck. The replacement unit only has a 1year warranty, so I do not think they officially "owe" me anything. I'll keep this updated with what the outcome is on the second unit. If they offer a replacement again for ~$200, that'll be great. Otherwise, it'll be time to look to a new brand. 10/2018: My Whynter 65qt dual voltage fridge has been rock solid. I use it as my drinks fridge in the hot garage when home and hosting parties. But it also serves as my 12 volt powered overlanding fridge on countless offroad trips. It's been to Mexico and all over the Western half of the United States. I run it off of my car battery but also augment with solar on the roof of my truck. The new low power mode is super helpful for keeping things quiet at night when I end up sleeping in the truck with the fridge. This is one of my best purchases, no more ice and soggy EVERYTHING. It just works and works well!

Shipping box looked great! Opened it up, it was shipped in two boxes, second box looked great. Opened the second box and the four cardboard corner guards inside the second box looked great. Took the cooler out and there was a huge dent on the front corner of the cooler. Where the dent was it caused paint to flake off. Not a scratch but a huge flake (3+ inch diameter area) just lifted off the metal exposing bare steel, from the dent and spanning across the front of the cooler. The paint flaked off as if it wasn't even adhered to the metal. Mine did have metal handles on the side over plastic ones. I paid $500 for this? (65 quart on a lightning sale). I read all the reviews, have been looking at all these options for months, pulled the trigger, I wanted to be happy about it. This think looks, cheap. Somehow still feels cheap even though it weighs a ton! It is very square and ugly too. Not that that should matter but this item is extremely so. The digital control was poorly located on the bottom back corner and looked like some cheap thing you'd find in a children's science/engineering kit, not on any type of professionally manufactured appliance. Handles, hinges and latches all just screwed onto the outside with no thought to design, integration or ergonomics. I didn't even try to turn it on. Right back in the box. Dropped it back off at UPS Store the very next day after delivery. Wasn't out of the box for more than 15 minutes at my house. Soon as I get the refund I'll order a comparable Dometic (Waeco) I expect I'll find it worth the extra dollars. I'll probably get one a little smaller too. I usually go for the deal, I don't need things fancy. I drive mid eighties honda four wheelers because I can usually find them for $500 a piece. I have a yard tractor I paid $150 for, I replaced the drive shaft, its a 610 Cub Cadet, $200. I rebuit a Cal Spa Hot Tub I got for Free, thing runs great we use it ll the time. I like a deal. This fridge looked like overpriced BS ready to break, nothing ore. I will not own it. Do what you will. If I'm all ready spending 500+ I don't want anything as cheap as this. Just looking at it I could never have confidence that it would be reliable. IMHO Looking forward to putting my Dometic in the back of our road trip vehicle. Fridge in a car is a great idea! Just not this one.

I ordered this in 2021 and it has been running continuously since I bought it in my ambulance camper conversion. Have had no problems and it draws very little power. Overall very happy with the purchase and so far has great longevity. It was far cheaper than other brands when I purchase a few years ago.

A great little fridge/freezer that came in very handy after my rv fridge died. Pros: Started right up thus virtually plug and play. Milk gets so cold that my family can't guzzle it down like hogs thus big savings on milk bill. Doesn't take up TOO much space in my rv. Very quiet. I LOVE that it can run off of DC/solar so I can actually be completely independent of the RV parks that charge $40 and up per night. Very well insulated. Not near as heavy as some reviewers portrayed. Cons: One reviewer that said either side on its own was big enough to hold a weeks worth of food for him and his wife...Well, they must not eat much... The big side won't hold a gallon of milk unless laid on its side on upper shelf, I am not going to risk that kind of leakage so stuck with little side for fridge. Compartments appear much smaller than seemingly described. *The covering I purchased as well appears to help...somewhat, but keep in mind that the cover has 5 holes in it to allow for vents, digital setting screen and two handles? It is a very, very thin canvas. Ask yourself how good is a covering to keep coolness in when it has 3 big square holes in it and 2 smaller rectangle holes? Not much, lol. After inspecting it, would I purchase the cover again? No way. All in all, it sure beats a simple cooler and having to fill with ice constantly and drain water out of it constantly. **I paid full price for this so my opinion is not influenced by anything other than a buyer/seller arrangement. I can't speak to the longevity as I've only had these items a short while. *** This review is from a family member of Victoria's, who kindly lets us order items out of necessity from time to time on her account.

I have had this portable fridge for several years now, the smaller dual zone variant. It fits in the back of my Prius, but it is big and heavy. The way I use this is if I move it by myself, I have it empty to minimize the chance of back injury as it is heavy. I keep around grocery bags so that I can quickly move the food around separately from the cooler. If I have help moving, than sure, load it up / keep it loaded up and move it around that way. One side of this portable fridge is definitely heavier than the other, so say you want to piss off your significant other if you are stronger than them, have them carry the heavy side. The fridge I have is a solid piece every way. It has been stored for a while at times and run continuously for years as well and just does the job every time. I periodically blow out the dust from the internals with an air compressor. I usually set the smaller compartment to 0 F and the large compartment to 38 F and it holds these temperatures well. A great thing is you can set either side to whatever you want and this fridge will do it for maximum flexibility. Then 115V AC powers it, 12V DC from your car / truck / van powers it, and even 24V DC from a battery powers it. For running on battery, I normally hook it up to a 24V LFP battery that at the time of this writing is 14 years old. The estimated average power draw from the battery is 30W. Maybe something worth considering as 12V is such a low voltage. With 24V, I can run this fridge, my hobby charger at its highest power settings, USB buck based chargers, and a DC to AC power inverter and keep the wire gauge down a great deal over doing 12V. If say you want to go camping, if you pick up a current day 24V 100AH LFP battery, my calculation from tests on my 14 year old LFP battery is you could go ~3 days running this fridge in reasonably nice weather and longer if it is cold out. If you add a DC buck converter based USB charger, you could also charge your USB devices such as your cell phone and USB charged LED lights directly off of the battery. If you want to do some hobby stuff while camping, you can hook most hobby chargers directly to a 24V battery like this. You may want to get somewhat good at soldering and crimping so that you can have a nice wiring setup to hook everything together or maybe find someone who can build the wiring harness(es) you want / need. But really, if you are out to enjoy the outdoors on a car camping trip and there is no electrical power at your camping spot, you could have this fridge, a good LFP battery that you take care of (LFP batteries only last basically forever if they are not overly abused or neglected), your phones and tablets, and USB charged LED lighting making up the electricity side. Then have propane based cooking and heating / fire, and be good to go for days at a time. To extend things out, if you have a full hybrid Toyota, these make great quiet generators that won't annoy your neighbors, but they do have a significant residual power draw to run the car's onboard computer systems, meaning you don't want to leave the car running for days at a time. (My gen 3 Prius for example draws 200W to run the car's onboard computers.) So say you put in a 1,500W pure sine inverter in the back where the battery is for a full hybrid Toyota and keep the power draw while charging up your LFP battery under 800W as these cars tend to only have a surplus power of 800W when you turn off everything in the car while running such as turning off the lights and air conditioner and such (turning off the air conditioner is really important if you don't want to waste away all of your fuel), you just plug in your <800W LFP battery charger into that and charge up your 100 AH battery for a little while. Something like a 20A charge is perfect because you need to account for conversion losses and this will stay under the limit after conversion losses while also shortening down charge times so you can turn the car back off. Then you are good to go electricity wise for a few more days off of the battery all without burning too much fuel in your car. For propane, you start getting into bring something bigger than 1 lb tanks, say in the range of 15 lbs to 30 lbs and get some refillable 1 lb tanks and then refill your 1 lb tanks with the larger tank. Then you have all of the energy you could really want for camping and not go too crazy on all of the stuff you bring to make it all happen. Granted, you could also have say a small propane generator, but this gets into partial loads on a fully enclosed inverter based generator to try to keep the noise levels down to park regulations, still annoying neighbors if they are not inside of RVs, regulations on when you can run the generator, and so on. Also, you start thinking about that propane tank definitely being of the 30 lb variant for the extra fuel to run the generator as well as doing everything else you are looking to do with propane. Granted, 30 lb is a great size to take down to a local refueling station as refueling is a lot cheaper than tank swapping with say 15 lb tanks and some of these propane refueling places have a $20 minimum charge for refueling, so a 30 lb tank will bring you over this minimum. But yeah, if you are willing to heft this beast around and can find a big enough space to stick it, you can do all kinds of stuff with it and fit it into various master plans for what you want to do. This could be some extra fridge space, the iceless 'cooler' you have out back for your BBQ / get together / party. A battery powered cooler you bring out to the beach if your friends are willing to help you heft it around and you don't mind them mocking you for having such a beast of a cooler. Or even something you bring car camping if you can find the space for it and your significant other is happy about how well it keeps food the right temperature and doesn't mind the weight as long as you either help move it or just do all of the moving around yourself and don't complain about how your back feels after or maybe even get a couple of your kids to help carry the other side.

I bought this for my solar off grid camper because it runs directly off of 24v DC. My electrical system is all 24v and appliances that bypass the inverter will save you a lot of power in the long run. This fridge is amazing. It just sips power. When the compressor is running it's drawing maybe 90 Watts max at 24 volts. Once it gets down to temperature it just kicks on every 20 minutes or so depending on the ambient temperature. Once it gets cold it stays cold. The chest freezers are very efficient; cold air just sits in the basin rather than spilling out like when you open the front door of a standing fridge. I sleep right next to it when I'm camping, I do hear it click on and off but it's so quiet it's never woken me up or distracted me, even on very quiet nights. I took the latches and hinges off to fit it into a tighter space; the lids still sink in snugly and seal every time. If they don't close all the way it will let you know with a polite beep after a few minutes. The controls are easy to figure out. You can make either side a refrigerator or freezer (or both) which is a great idea. If you want to turn the whole thing into a meat freezer you can do that. I have the larger area as a refrigerator, I set them both at low temperatures and this fridge can keep both compartments that cold. Ice does build up in the freezer and I have to empty it out, let it melt and dry out the freezer every six months or so. I live in Florida with constant high humidity so this may not be an issue for everyone. It did arrive with a small dent but not a big deal. If I would change anything I would order a longer one. When I go on long trips I fill it to the brim and it fills up fast, especially with lots of ice in the freezer. This met all of my needs and exceeded all of my expectations. Highly recommended!

I have purchased two of Whynter’s portable fridges for my campervan, and I’m very impressed with both the products and the company’s customer support. Back in April 2020, I bought the Whynter FM-85G 85 Quart Portable Refrigerator/Freezer (110V/DC 12V, Gray), and it’s still working perfectly over five years later. It has proven to be reliable and durable with a consistent temperature range from -8°F to 50°F. I am currently using it as a freezer in my garage. Two years later, in April 2022, I purchased the Whynter FM-62DZ 62 Quart Dual Zone Portable Refrigerator and Deep Freezer Chest. After two years of use in my campervan , the temparture will not get bellow 68 degrees. I contacted Whynter’s support team and got in contact with Mariela. After a few troubleshooting steps over the phone, Whynter stood behind their product and Mariela sent me a replacement unit at no extra cost just paid for the shipping. It’s rare these days to find a company that truly backs its products and honors its warranty even after 2 years with such integrity. I highly recommend Whynter—not just for the quality of their refrigerators, but for the excellent customer service they provide. I already have recommended Whynter several times to fellow camper friends.