Goal Zero

Alta 50 Portable Fridge

Zero Soggy Food

Familiarity:

I've put it through the wringer

We were looking for something we could fit in our VW van and this fridge was the perfect size. There's plenty of room for food and drinks for a long weekend. We pair this with a Goal Zero Yeti 3000 which offers plenty of power for a long weekend and can be paired with a solar panel so you can charge when you're not on the move. The insulated blanket helps keep the fridge efficient when it heats up outside and reduces power consumption. Overall, I think this is a great fridge at a good price and is worth considering if you're building out a camping rig.

Perfect, accurate, and reliable way to cool items

Bought in spring of 2024 and used it on about 15 trips. Everything from key west to sturges. It is accurate, quiet and reliable. I got this to replace another companies (Dometic) product that was about 8 degrees off plus or minus. This made stuff freeze or thaw. The Alta solves this and is excellent!

Good buy on a well built fridge.

Good fridge! It keeps stuff cool and is pretty efficient. I haven't used it as much as I will next spring, summer and fall. Right now I could just leave the fridge open and the winter cold will do the rest. ;)

Meets and exceeds all our expectations for now

Short term review: we bought this for our sail boat as a freezer. Lid comes off if you need an extra two inches to get it in some place. We set to 0 degrees and it maintains well. Took a while to get down to temp and it helps to keep it full to maintain, ours only varies +3.. So quiet! Wish there was a led to know it is on. The 50 is tons of room. We can freeze enough to get 2-3 week extension on our sailing. Sturdy and the cover is nice. It really does help also. Latches are good. Very little cooling leakage we tested with a thermal scope. Less than our drawer refrigerators. Flexibility on power was a must for us as our boat was 220ac and 12 volt dc. Other good units are not as flexible. Power draw seems on par our better than any unit out there with this capability. Our only concern is longevity as compared to the other units out there that have decades of life. nothing gives us pause right now, it’s just the one remaining thing I can’t vouch for yet.

Great at using little energy

I the Alta 50 about two weeks ago and I’ve tested it using my Yeti 1400 and my Yeti 200x. The Alta 50 is real energy sipper. It went from 66F to 36F in 30 minutes. I ran it with the Yeti 1400 for several days and the Yeti still had plenty of power left. I plugged my 200x into when it was already chilled down and after 12 hours the 200x still 29% of its power left. I never could get the Bluetooth goal zero app to display the internal temperature of the Alta. I was able to use the app to change setting, but internal temperature was always wrong. This unit will be part of our overlanding system. Goal Zero just needs to work on that app.

Great product!

Great product! Keeps my beer chilled! Size is also perfect for my truck. Great replacement for ice-coolers. Looks are pretty slick! When not in the truck we put it in the Garage to cool beverages. Also comes handy during power cuts.

Didn't Disappoint

I was torn between this one and the 80, but I'm glad I went with the 50 because the 80 it bigger and this is just right size wise for a few days camping off grid. I bought this with the new Yeti 700 too which I was also pleased with. I've compared this with the ARB cooler and one other and I felt the quality was just as good at a lower price point. I was really impressed when it arrived quickly AND found out that some of the hardware powering the cooler is LG.

So far it’s been great

Only used a couple times so far but it’s been great paired with the yetti 700. Last weekend the temps were touching 100 degrees and it had no problem keeping up. Had it set at 36. Didn’t run down the yetti near as much as I thought it might. Didn’t even hook up the solar panels the last day and was running the skylight as well after dark. Definitely recommend

Excellent Adventure Cooler

This cooler is a beautiful design. It's beefy and runs almost completely silent. It sips energy from my Yeti for all day use. I'm impressed.

Alta 50

I have been shopping for the best one, and I think I have found it. Great product and would recommend it to anyone.