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Yes, the return of pointless gadget of the moment. This just arrived and for £12 I'm a happy man. Designed for 6 330ml cans on their side or 4 500ml cans upright it is just the job for a personal fridge when you can't be bothered to get up to get another beer while watching TV. Beyond the basic mini fridge costs less than a crate of beer to put in it (6 cans at a time maybe, but the larger 24 can fridge was out of stock) it also uses a peltier cooler (put voltage across pad, one side heats up, the other gets colder. Put HSF on one side and you get quite a good system that doesn't involve CFCs or even leakable water) which just adds a whole layer of coolness and also means you can take it appart for some fun things to mess with. And, you can reverse the power flow and it turns into a heater that will keep anything inside warm (should hover about 65 C). Finally, it can take either 12V (for the car cig adaptor included) or mains. Definitely a great under £15 Chrimbo gift. |
6 can fridge
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Shivoa 6,314 posts
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terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThat sounds useful to have in my uni room, so I don't have to entrust my butter etc. to the communal fridge, and also cool drinks. How noisy is it if I had it on all night, and would my butter be fine if I unplugged it at night? -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoterminalterror wrote:
so I don't have to entrust my butter etc.
Found any nob prints or burried beneath the surface pubes in the butter yet?
Used to be quite common with the rugby posh boys at university. - not suggesting your a rugby posh boy. -
terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agossuellid wrote:
terminalterror wrote:
so I don't have to entrust my butter etc.
Found any nob prints or burried beneath the surface pubes in the butter yet?
Used to be quite common with the rugby posh boys at university. - not suggesting your a rugby posh boy.
Nope, but when I returned from Tesco one day with some muffins, I went to the fridge to get my butter and Philidelphia to spread on the muffins. They were not in the fridge. Somebody had removed them, partially hidden them (I would never have found them until I started looking), so when I did find them, they were ruined. I then had to go back to Tescos and buy new butter and cheese spread
I'm guessing that is less likely to happen if they are in my room. -
Shivoa 6,314 posts
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Registered 20 years ago>Used to be quite common with the rugby posh boys at university. - not suggesting your a rugby posh boy.
He goes to Oxford, of course....gif)
>How noisy is it if I had it on all night, and would my butter be fine if I unplugged it at night?
Not very at all. It basically uses a single quiet 80 or 92mm fan to push the air at not incredible speeds. If you sleep with a PC on then you aren't going to notice it at all but if the hum from a light outside your room pisses you off then it isn't ideal. The seal seems ok but not incredible so I'd guess you could get away with keeping it off while you sleep.
/remembers his first year in Uni
We had free minifridges in each room (something to do with compensation for being the only hall off campus and having to walk 3 miles to the lectures) -
ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 20 years agoOne of the first things I discovered at University was that there were only 10 different food locker keys for the hall I was in.
Have you got a nice ensuite you could shove the fridge in overnight? -
terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agoShivoa wrote:
>Used to be quite common with the rugby posh boys at university. - not suggesting your a rugby posh boy.
He goes to Oxford, of course...
>How noisy is it if I had it on all night, and would my butter be fine if I unplugged it at night?
Not very at all. It basically uses a single quiet 80 or 92mm fan to push the air at not incredible speeds. If you sleep with a PC on then you aren't going to notice it at all but if the hum from a light outside your room pisses you off then it isn't ideal. The seal seems ok but not incredible so I'd guess you could get away with keeping it off while you sleep.
/remembers his first year in Uni
We had free minifridges in each room (something to do with compensation for being the only hall off campus and having to walk 3 miles to the lectures)
Whilst not nearly that far away, Queen's first years are the only ones not living in college. Its about 2km from the department, but everybody cycles. -
terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years ago*bump*
After having my butter stolen for the second time, I think that having a mini fridge in my room would be a good idea. The price of the one Shivoa linked to has gone up to £17.61 inc VAT, is it still a bargain or are there better/cheaper alternatives? -
Zond3 635 posts
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Registered 18 years agowill a chicken fit into this mini fridge? that would be quite handy. i guess you could -
terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agootto wrote:
I had a fridge at uni, it sounded like Concorde so I put it in the corridor outside my room and let my neighbours keep stuff in there too. I thought someone was pinching my milk so I stuck a snotty message on fridge door saying 'if you pinch my milk I'll pinch yours' and used the other person's milk. Cue very upset nice girl next door asking me whether I thought she had pinched my milk because she hadn't honest, me feeling very guilty, lots of bad atmosphere. My advice. Don't get a communal fridge and if you do get one, let the odd bit of butter/milk theft go. It's not worth it.
We already have communal fridges provided, but with the recent rampant theft I was thinking of getting a mini fridge. They normally emit a quiet hum, which I should get used to after a few days.
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terminalterror 18,932 posts
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Registered 20 years agoZond 3 wrote:
will a chicken fit into this mini fridge? that would be quite handy. i guess you could
Why would I want to have a chicken? We aren't allowed any sort of cooking equipment apart from a toaster and a kettle, and possible a microwave.
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Boundy 959 posts
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Registered 17 years agowww.ebuyer.co.uk have a 6 litre budweiser fridge for £23 deleivered. its looks great, remember those coca cola stereos? its like one of those but budwieser and a mini fridge, they also o pepsi ones.
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mooth-EcToX 3,619 posts
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Registered 19 years agodirect linkage? cant seem to find it :/ -
Boundy 959 posts
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Registered 17 years agoi dont know how to do direct linkage, its in the home and leisure section, heres a link.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=80262 -
Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoterminalterror wrote:
American Pie / British Chicken.
Or were you thinking of some other use?
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I had a fridge at uni, it sounded like Concorde so I put it in the corridor outside my room and let my neighbours keep stuff in there too. I thought someone was pinching my milk so I stuck a snotty message on fridge door saying 'if you pinch my milk I'll pinch yours' and used the other person's milk. Cue very upset nice girl next door asking me whether I thought she had pinched my milk because she hadn't honest, me feeling very guilty, lots of bad atmosphere. My advice. Don't get a communal fridge and if you do get one, let the odd bit of butter/milk theft go. It's not worth it.
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