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Some solid advice right here. I paid 20$ for this but you can get it here for free! This would be a good time to reread this article with summer coming up.

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I got a chance to use my cooler but this strange weather has been to cold to really test without a couple days.

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Really love your approach to this test Travis think I need another similar cooler

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So Travis I'm on my phone and it's a little hard to tell. It looks like there's more ice in the tray–less cooler, but is that because the water bottles are under the ice?


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So Travis I'm on my phone and it's a little hard to tell. It looks like there's more ice in the tray–less cooler, but is that because the water bottles are under the ice?


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Yes that is correct, but it could be a trick of the eye, we will find out soon! The water bottles do sit up higher.

The one thing that the tray does and the intended use is to keep stuff out of the water! That's what it's doing so far.
 

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Here is Day 2 of a "6 day xtreme" ice chest.

The one on the left has the tray in it. Tomorrow I believe will be a defining day as far as ice retention. I'm giving the tray a benefit of the doubt as it is elevating its contents and could be playing a trick on the eyes. We will see!
 
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Are you draining any water for the test?


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I didn't get to the coolers in time, they both melted on me enroute to our next location on our trip. I will say the cooler tray sucked up a 20lb bag of ice. I bet even a little more would fit under the tray.

As far as drink temperature, they are noticeably warmer in the cooler tray but not a ton. I can tell the difference as well as other folks.
 
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Hey testers, just swinging back to make sure everyone who received product has posted or is getting close? Let me know if you've posted or not.

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I apologise cooler tray/Robby for slacking in posting my report. I had a chance to use the cooler tray on a couple over night trips but was waiting until I got a longer trip in.
The cooler tray seems to work as designed and keeps the ice and contents and melted ice water separate. This is important for me since I usually have my coolers packed into a trailer where it's a pain to pull them and drain them.

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I'm conducting a test to compare the temperature of drinks submerged in ice and melted water vs. ice/cooler tray with no water.
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test coolers are both Coleman extreme 70 quarts. 16 cans of soda and 3 water bottles.
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each has 20lbs of cubed ice.
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Checked both coolers today after leaving them with full sun exposure.
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Drained and measured each water level.
No tray had a gallon plus 3lbs 2oz
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Cooler tray had a gallon plus 5lbs 1oz
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This puts the melt water almost dead even with tray. Suspect by the next check water will be above the tray guess we'll see.

***Returned all water into thier respective cooler after measurements were taken***

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I'll be testing the liquid water temps from a water bottle from each cooler in the morning.

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Ok both coolers didn't do great e with ice retention, so I just wieghted the remaining ice.
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non cooler tray
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looks like water temp of 42* and 12oz ice left

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