Product review (5 stars): Surprisingly fine peice of equipment
I didn't really need a freezer.  I just wanted to see if sunlight could really be turned into ice.  My friend talked me into getting some solar panels from Harbor Freight and I wasn't excited about using them to run lights or radios or some other pedestrian thing.  Part of the attraction of solar is that if the power goes out you still have some electricity.  We don't lose power very often in central Florida, but we did have a hurricane a few years ago that actually put the grid down for several days, not just several hours.  It was then that I realized the most precious thing when you lose the grid is cooling, not heating.  Anyone who does camping likely has enough equipment and fuel to cook food for days with what you normally have on hand.  The rub is cooling and losing all the food in the fridge.  The milk, the eggs.  Ice was the first thing that sold out in our grocery stores and it didn't get replenished.  Thus, I thought a freezer would be an awesome thing to have in an emergency.  You could make your own ice and have lots of frozen food of every variety.  Mostly though, I just thought it would be cool beyond belief to run a freezer off solar panels.  There aren't many choices out there, so I ordered this Sunzdanzer.  5.8 cubic feet is plenty of room.  I have run this thing for a couple of years now, and I am impressed.  You can expect temperatures to be stable at about 6 degrees Fahrenheit.  That's cold enough to freeze anything but ice cream.  I think ice cream prefers to be about 0 degrees, so ice cream in this unit will unfortunately be a little too soft.  But everything else is great.  Popsicles, Lean Cuisines, steak, fish, bread, frozen vegetables all are frozen hard and stay that way.  Plus, this unit is extremely quiet.  When it is running, the most you can hear is a faint trickling of water sound.  Never a motor sound.  The engineering is very impressive.  One more caveat about the temperature.  My results are based on the freezer being indoors with normal indoor temps.  If you have this unit out in the garage with super hot temps (like my garage) I have no idea what the freezer would be capable of, but it would be tougher on the unit.  The unit came very well packaged and was delivered by an 18 wheeler tractor trailer from New Mexico.  It wasn't very heavy either.  The unit runs only off 12 volt or 24 volt, so it is totally engineered for solar which is great.  I will offer a couple of nit picks, but don't take them to heart, they are small things really.  First, there are three baskets that can lay just inside the top of the unit giving you the ability to compartmentalize a bit.  You end up with an arrangement like a box of chocolates -- you can remove the top layer of items by removing the baskets and get to the bottom layer of food pretty quickly.  What I didn't like was the little handle brackets that  hang onto the top ledge of the freezer interior -- the brackets slip out of position and collapse making you reset them.  That is chronic but just an annoyance.  The other is the light bulb inside.  It is a 24 v bulb and is rather dim when used with 12 v.  And you can't find a 12 v. bulb like this anywhere - even the manufacturer doesn't have them.  The resulting interior light is enough, but only barely.  Overall, though I am very impressed with this freezer and recommend it to you.