ARB Zero Electric Cooler - Dual Zone - 73 Qts

Video Transcript for Review of ARB Coolers - Dual Zone Electric Cooler 18 Gallon - ARB48VR

Hi everybody, Andy here with etrailer.com. Let's take a look at this ARB Zero dual zone electric cooler. Now this 18.25 gallon electric cooler is going to be great for such adventures as overlanding, camping, tailgating, road trips, boating, and a whole lot more. This is going to do a great job of keeping your food and your drinks cold or frozen without having to worry about that mess that you get with ice. Now this dual zone fridge and freezer is not only going to be perfect for your longer adventures, but this is going to actually work great as an additional fridge or freezer in your RV or camper and this dual zone cooler is going to give you maximum versatility. Now, this cooler features a outer steel outer casing that's gonna be very tough and durable.

And as you see, we also have these reinforced corners that are going to give you added protection protecting the interior of your cooler. Now as you can also see here, the handles are recessed and so that's going to help save space and there are stainless steel bracket tie down points underneath the recessed handles for mounting and making sure this is secure when you are traveling. Now the overall weight of this cooler, it's hefty, it's a little over 72 pounds. And the overall dimensions, I went ahead and measured this earlier before our time together. Looking at the overall length, we're sitting at about 29 and three quarters inches long.

And then the overall width, we are sitting right at about 18 and a half inches wide. And then the overall height from top to bottom to the surface it's actually gonna be sitting on, we're about 22 and a quarter inches tall. Now the cooler lid is actually going to be very easy to remove and that's going to allow for easy loading and unloading. So to remove the lid, you just open it like you saw that I did here and just give a firm pull back and then lift up. And then that's going to allow you to completely remove the lid.

And what's nice about this is this is also reversible so you can change the direction of the lid. So I'm gonna go ahead and just pop it in here on this side and it just pops right in into the hinges there. And then that's gonna be great in case you loaded this in your vehicle in a direction where the lid doesn't easily open, you can just swap that lid and allow easier access. So that's going to be very convenient for you. Now let's take a look overhead.

I want to show you the inside of this cooler. So inside we have a fully refrigerated stepped compartment that has a temperature range from negative eight degrees Fahrenheit to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. And we have removable baskets. As you can see, we have a lid here for our separate compartment here, but the baskets also remove and that's going to allow you to easily load and unload the cooler. And also it's gonna be very easy to clean these baskets. So as you can see, they slide right out. Let me actually go back to my wide view here just to show you the depth of the baskets if you will. So that kind of gives you an idea of how much room you're going to have. So that's gonna be a very nice feature that this has with these removable baskets. And this, you're also going to have headroom in here, plenty of headroom for upright standing bottles and even like a half gallon of milk. So you're not gonna have to put items like that on their side where they could potentially spill. As I mentioned, this has an 18.25 gallon capacity. So this can fit about 87 12 ounce cans. And like I said, you can, it's deep enough for like a two liter bottle, half gallon of milk to keep that upright. And then if you remove this divider that you see here to where it's just gonna give you one compartment, you can fit up to about 108 12 ounce cans. So hopefully that gives you an idea of the capacity of this cooler. We do have an LED light here, right here at the end that's going to make it very easy to find items in low light conditions. So if you don't want to disturb the people you're with by turning lights on, this light is going to be plenty bright enough to see what's going on on the inside. Hopefully you can see, let me take a look here. Yep, right down there we do have a drain plug. Let me see if I can remove the basket so you can see a little bit easier. So right there at the base at the bottom there is a drain plug that's going to allow you to easily drain any condensation or water or even if you're trying to clean this out a little bit, that's going to allow that water to easily drain out from the base. Now when I close this lid, as you can see here, we have a nonslip pad on the top and the lid has indentions for cups and bottles. So you can set this by your chair and put some items on here and you're not gonna have to worry about them slipping off the top of this cooler. So that's a nice addition. Let me give you a closeup here of our panel. I'm gonna switch this around the other way here so I can stay plugged in. So taking a look here at our panel, this is where you control all of the functions. So as you can see we have our power button, we have our turbo button that's going to allow you to quickly cool the inside of this, especially if you turn it on for the first time. Let me come around the other side here and as you can see when I hit this turbo button, this boost light is going to light up just like that. So the turbo function is engaged. And then we do have our power indicator fault up and fault lights. So as you can see it's green, but if there is a fault, that will change color. And then the included instruction manual will give you directions on what to do. And then we have our LED display here showing you the temperature of each of the compartments. We have a mode button and then our temperature setting buttons. So that mode button will allow you to change the temperature of the compartments as you can see there. And then go through the other functions if you want the temperature display as Fahrenheit, the power levels of Bluetooth functionality. So you got quite a few features there that are included with this and they can all be controlled by this panel. Now this does also have the ability, as you saw, it has the Bluetooth capability. There is a free app that you can download in the app store of either your Apple smartphone, your iPhone, or your Android smartphone. It's a free app that's going to allow you to control the settings on your cooler. And that app also shows you will monitor the power input voltage and the fridge compressor status. Also, as you can see here, we do have our AC connection, our DC connection on this side and then another DC connection on the other side. So that's very convenient. And then this also has a USB port that's going to allow you to charge your USB compatible devices. So it's a nice feature there. And also I wanted to point out this emergency override switch. For normal operation, he switch is gonna stay in the normal use position, but if an electrical control or display board failure occurs, you're just going to slide that switch to the emergency override position and then the cooler will run with full cooling capacity and it may freeze, but at least you're not gonna have to be worried about items in your cooler spoiling. And then you can get this repaired to see what the issue is. So this cooler is gonna plug into your vehicle's 12 or 24 volt DC system. And then of course the also works with your AC outlet. It does include the necessary cables. So you can plug this into AC or DC. And this has, this is energy efficient and it has a power current draw rather of 2.9 amps. This also includes a great set of instructions to walk you through the features that this cooler has and make sure that you're operating it the way it should be operated. You have your AC cable and also your DC cable. Let me go ahead and replace my lid here in the compartment, but I think that's gonna wrap up our look today. I do hope that it was helpful for you. Again, my name is Andy. Thank you for joining me.