All about IdleAire....??

[matcat]

well you can only eat PB&J for so long. i have water, milk, and meat in my cooler. and honestly, the road pro cooler seemed to work better than the igloo one got. takes up less space too.

anyone want an igloo cooler? =)

when and if i ever buy my own truck, it will have to come with a fridge. my mentor had one in his KW T2k, think it was a 2006 or 07....but it had a fridge in it. think it came with the truck and not something he put in.

Yeah you can get factory installed fridge as an option on most trucks. My vovlo 780 has a built in fridge from the factory. It's pretty descent in size, has a freezer too.

[matcat]

or, you could try going with dry food rather than the stuff that needs to be cooled. having all that crap plugged in and sucking up the batteries is asking for trouble later on. the only two things i have plugged into the cigarette lighters is a 75w inverter i use for my cell phone and a 200w inverter that i have my laptop plugged into. in the volvos i had prior to the freighliner columbia, i could go a day and a half without having to hear the lower power alarm.

having a tv, cooler, and other power sapping things will cause trouble at some point in time. especially at those places where they don't want you idling while your trailer is being loaded or unloaded.

That is nothing, your batteries ought to be able to handle 3000 watts easily for a good while. them igloos take up barely any power, actually TV's dont take up that much power either. The only thing that gives me a warning is the microwave, and that is from the inverter itself, I have yet to get the power low enough to trigger the trucks voltage alarm.

[--grande--]

Do you smoke ? I do and the one time I used the idle air thingie, My truck stunk like a cheap motel room for a week. I smoke in my truck, while im driving, I close the sleeper and roll down both windows

But as another person said, he got sick, I totally agree with him, i felt like crap the next day, my truck stunk I was un happy with the experiance.... Now I get a room, or run my trip pac most of the time I'll get a room it is easyer, I have a best western gold card and it is nice when you get free stays I save them to take the wife out to get away from the kids once a month