That’s at least a couple inches taller than equivalent-size fridges from other brands – which, again, tend to be wider than they are tall. The Dometic CFX3 100L is a beast of an off-grid refrigerator. It’s built into a heavy-duty chest style body with added toughness from things like reinforced edges, stainless steel hinges, and very heavy insulation.

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Obviously power draw and energy efficiency are SUPER important when you live in an off-grid van. No matter how souped up your power vanlife gadgets are, you always want to be conserative, especially with something like a fridge that must always have power or else risk food spoiling.BougeRV offered to send us one of their refrigerators to test out and review, and we took them up on it so that we could see if this cheap 12V refrigerator can stand up to life on the road.

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In this post, we help you wade through all the vanlife refrigeration options, from cheap to top-of-the-line to DIY. We go over the pros and cons of the best 12V refrigerator models. We discuss whether those expensive 12 volt fridges are really worth the cost, and what you may be giving up with the cheaper units. After discounts, the BougeRV fridge is less than 1/3 the price of high end units from top brands like Dometic and ARB, and almost half the price of the equivalent Iceco fridge.One other huge perk of the family of Dometic products is they’ve entered the 21st century in a big way. The electric cooler not only has a sleek high-resolution display, but it’s also Bluetooth-enabled and app-compatible. You read that right, you can connect your smartphone to the CFX 100W via Bluetooth to monitor and control it. This is a useful feature if you have anything that’s temperature sensitive inside and want to make sure it’s right where it should be.