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Testimonials from People using CoolBots

Hello Ron,

The Coolbot and the LG 24,000 btu air conditioner are working like a champ!!  We are keeping our  9 x 11 root cooler in our basement at 34 degrees!!  That gives us 6 pallets of roots that we are distributing to our 80 member winter CSA.  The cooling system has already paid for itself at this point.  We are also benefiting from the exhaust heat from the air conditioner into the other side of our basement below our kitchen.  Rarely do you get double duty out of a heating and cooling system like that.  This system is great for our application.
Thanks!!
Paul at Sweet Land Farm

Hello Ron,
    ...I put your unit on a 12000 btu Lg. unit and it worked absolutely perfectly. This was one of the most enjoyable deer seasons I have had in seven years of processing due to your unit taking the early season pressure of warm weather off me. I had absolutely no problems at all and showed the coolbot to many of my hunters. Many of them are now considering building their own coolers thanks to the coolbot. I just wanted to say thank you for your help and for coming up with a outstanding product. I really appreciate it.
       -Richard Still, Owner Rick's Deer Processing

[Providing non-metric conversion for US folks]
I have to say that I'm extremly impressed with this little machine. I installed it on a 8000 btu maytag aircondtioner and put it in my current small meat hanging room (4' x 6' x 7.6' h) which is far from insulated proper to try the unit out. After 2 weeks of checking morn & nite temperatures finding the unit only moved 3 degrees(40 to 43) even when the temps jumped to 90-95 outside.At current we are redoing the meat room over to proper insulation standards. I personly would recomend this COOLBOT unit to everyone who is considering a walkin cooler. Can't wait to try the FREEZEBOT

       Thanks Darrell & Rosanne
       Ontairo,Canada - June 1, 2009

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As a deer hunter, the past few warm seasons have presented many challenges regarding maintaining quality meat. Our camp invested in a 12 x 7 x 7 freezer box and mounted on a trailer for mobility. We discovered 2 days before the season, that the ThermoKing unit on the box was going to cost a considerable amount to repair. It was a quick fix after a visit to the local Home Depot for a 18,000 BTU LG and a phone call to CoolBot to over night a unit. The next day, in 2 hours, we completed the install on our mobile cooler.

Temperatures averaged in the mid 60's during the day and we were able to maintain a constant 35 degree F in the cooler with 12 deer hanging.

Thank you for a great product and for your excellent customer support.

Michael B. - Central Illinois
November 24, 2009

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We used it to put our deer in. It got down between 35 to 37 degrees. They was asking 3 to 4 thousand dollars for an outside and inside cooling unit. With the coolbot and ac it only cost us 700 dollars. Thank you Mark Cooper.

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Hello,
We purchased a coolbot in June of 2009. We raise vegetables and cut flowers. Previously, we had had a compressor unit to cool our walk-in cooler. The coolbot works extremely well and efficiently. It cools down much quicker than our compressor unit did. It uses much less electricity then our compressor unit used. We are extremely pleased with the unit. It was economical and easy to install.

Thank-you.
Dianne S
Coopersville, Michigan

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Ron,

Just wanted to let you know of our success with your cool bot.
We purchased the cool bot from you in May of 09 and I built a 8X12 walk-in cooler to store all of our produce. I got the 12,000 btu LG air conditioner. We had a great first month and the I called you with problems with the cool bot sensor. You replaced that and we had no problems. The first LG was bad because the LED got wet and you said to replace the unit. I returned it in June and got new unit that preformed well all summer and fall. We currently are using the cooler to keep apples and eggs in it.
It has been -10 to -15 here, I have shut the ac unit off and am keeping the cooler at 37-40 degrees with a small heater.

I figure that we saved ~18-20 kilowatts per day this summer with the cool bot and ac unit.
Great savings over the small floral cooler that we had in the past.

We have pictures of our installation on our blog spot that shows the cooler and ac/cool bot. That you can look at and use if you want.

Thanks for the great product.

Doug
Rolling Prairie Acres
www.rollingprairieacres.blogspot.com

CoolBot got "Twitter-recommended" by EuroFlorist Corporate to 57,000 flower shops on July 2, 2009!!!!! WOW!!!! (You have to search through for that date.) Note that although flower shops are now our second largest category of sales we don't do any print advertising in that direction. At 1/8th-1/10th the cost of a conventional cooler, there is a lot of "Word of mouth" recommendations and even more important have been recommendations by many flower wholesalers in the US (CoolBot can be inexpensively installed as a secondary cooler in a side room to increase capacity) and newsletters. This is the first we've heard that we'd been "tweeted" though - and internationally at that! (Store It Cold established distributors in Brazil, New Zealand and Europe in February of 2009 and India and the Middle East in May of 2009)
https://twitter.com/EuroFlorist - you have to search through for Coolbot.

I built a 8x8 cooler, installed your extrordinary Coolbot with an A/C and boom! I got a real efficient cooler. Amazing! For a month and a half, 24/24, I kept the room around 37° easily and at the warmer period of the year. That was great.

And I'd like to thank you for your help. Your article is very interesting, lots of informations. TY again.

re'gards

Marc-Antoine
L'Héritage de MAÉLI
QUEBEC

PS: I talked about the Coolbot to a couple other small farm owners and they ordered one! :-)

For several years now I have been wanting a walk-in cooler but they were way out of my price range especially since the only thing I wanted it for was to hang deer in the fall. It turns out a couple of weeks ago I was online looking for some sort of refrigeration unit for sale so that I could maybe build my own cooler and thats how I found the Coolbot.

I proceeded to clear out a corner of my detached garage and built a 6' X 8' cooler which has 4" foam board insulation on floor, ceiling, and walls. I'm cooling it with a LG 10,000 BTU unit and have no problem keeping the cooler in the mid to upper 30 degree range. I wanted to let you know that I am completely satisfied with the CoolBot, it works perfectly just as claimed and couldn't be any easier to install and operate.

I start Bow hunting for deer in September, and here in Kansas there has been many deer I have passed up, or just stayed home due to the temps being too high. But now that will no longer be a factor, not with the CoolBot, so thanks for making that possible.

Sincerely,
Richard F.

Stilwell, KS.

Ron,
Thank you for your quick response and concern when our new cool-bot showed an error read on the defrost sensor.
Since we reinstalled the new cool-bot it has worked flawlessly as advertised.
It is mush quicker to defrost than the original one purchased and the unit is only running about half as much.
We are using an LG 10,000 BTU unit to cool down below 40 degrees a 4 by 8 cooler room
Although not necessary we have had it down to 33 degrees, I cannot believe how efficient this system is and how much better it cools than our old system did.
Thanks for a great product and for excellent customer service!

Kyle C.

We installed the Cool Bot and a LG 24,000 BTU a/c we got from Home Depot into our wak-in. It took less than and hour to drop the temp to 38 degress. We did this in lieu of replacing our walk-in compressor. The fix was about 1/3 the cost and it seems to work fine.
Here are our pics.

Patrick M
Houston, Texas

Hi,
I built this walk-in cooler in my wife's flower shop. It's been in service for about a month. Running flawlessly.
Cooler is approximately 7X9 [feet]. LG 12,500 AC. Everything hooked up easily. Works fantastic. After everything was running, temp. on 5 deg C [41F], I took the cooler door off the hinges to plane it down a bit. The temp jumped up to 16 deg C [61F]. After the door was re-installed the temp was back down to 5 deg C within 5 min.

Thanks for a great product. The flowers are doing really well.

-Al
"Pretty Flowers"
Port Rowan, Canada

Hi Guys,
I spoke with you a couple of times last year after I bought my coolbot. I love this thing, and I tell all of my micro bakery friends about them. It really is a marvelous invention....[snipped]
*** PS. My energy bill dropped by 350 to 400 KWH per month with the coolbot installation. ***
[Bolding and *'s added for emphasis]

    -Noah E.
    O.H. Breadworks
    New Hampshire

We purchased a Kool.bot from you last spring. We could not be happier with the results. We took what had been a single care garage with a door on both ends and made our cooler area. We created an 8' X12' precooler room for putting ID tags on remains and also to house the AC unit and keep it above freezing in the winter. We are 6500 feet elevation and we get four feet of snow per year so it does get cold in Arizona. The precooler room is insulated nearly as well as the cooler so I don't think the temp will get below 32 but if it does we will ad an electric heater.

The side walls of the garage were slump block so we erected walls of 2X6 on 24" centers. Our local Home Depot carries 2" sheathed styrofoam so we put two layers in the walls and ceiling. We then foams around the edges with arosol foam. We free floated the floor as you recomended and covered with tongue and groove plywood. We used drywall on the walls and ceiling and put vinyl flooring on the plywood floor. We used a standard 3-0 insulated door from Home Depot and glued 2" of foam on each side. The finished cooler is 11' X 14'. A commercial cooler one third that size would have cost more than twice as much as we invested in this project.

We used the largest LG AC unit and it only takes 40 minutes for it to cool from 70 degrees to 38 degrees. We could not be more pleased.

Michael
Black's Mortuary

**** Here is a person (June 2009) that is using a CoolBot in a way Ron doubted would work well. It's working beautifully and his implementation is absolutely beautifully handled!!! Note that his display stand is probably as big as I could imagine it being. (I worried that the air wouldn't be able to circulate up and through such a big area... Also, note this isn't a totally "open" display cooler as he is putting plastic over the opening in the front (I assume they are plastic strips, hard to tell from the picture). He is only running this at 45 degrees. While this is June and it's pretty hot, I would worry about doing something like this in Florida or Arizona with higher ambient temperatures... Still, this is a beautifully implemented use of the CoolBot technology and it's obviously working well for him (and saving him money!) He seems like a gifted tinkerer/craftsman and not afraid to experiment - great combination! Now I want to do a display cooler like this for our farm!

To: ron at storeitcold
I want to thank you,
My coolBot does what I needed it to do. I have a small produce shack that I sell goods out of to help with our SS retirement. I have built this stand and have had to buy ice to keep things cool. Now I can save $55.00 a week with your CoolBot. Hear are some pictures.

The ac unit is in the bottom left corner the air moves through the bottom and up the right wall then fales down from the top.

Thanks,
    Kevin W.

August 6, 2008

Hi there,

I've had the CoolBot about 2 months now and wanted to get back to you with a report. I have a 5' x 9' x 7' high walk-in cooler, and the CoolBot has made all the difference. My room has 4" foam insulation and is tightly sealed, and is cooled by a Samsung 10,500 BTU AC unit. For the first year I used my own micky mouse system, taping the Samsung's temp sensor to a "wall wart" power supply which would give off heat and force the temperature lower than the 64 degree lower limit on the AC unit. By covering the power supply with insulation I could force the unit to cool down to about 50 degrees, but any lower and it would freeze up. Still, I felt quite clever and believed I was squeezing all the cooling power possible out of the AC unit.

Then I heard about the CoolBot and immediately ordered and installed it. I have found it to work exactly as you claim. I can easily achieve 32 degrees in the cooler when the outside temps are 95+ degrees. And I love being able to set whatever temperature I want just by pushing a button, and knowing the cooler temp will stay right there. The CoolBot has made my "cool room" into an honest to goodness walk-in produce cooler. Thanks,

Bill
Sunny Slope Orchard
Vacaville, CA

July 2008
...we're running the cool bot and an LG 11,500 btu unit on 100% solar power and it works great. We maintain the walk-in at about 44 F. I'm not sure if there are other folks using alternative energy sources to operate a walk-in cooler? Our farm is off-grid and this was a great option for us as our below grade stone root cellar warms to around 58% at this time of year.
Again, thanks.
Steven S.
Hermit Creek Farm
High Bridge, WI

July 2008
We love our Coolbot cooler- photos are on our website below- go down to May of 2008. The coolbot system let us make a cooler out of an odd shaped unused shed on our packing house for about $2000 including some structural work on the building. It also let us keep the sight line the same on a property that’s already crowded. It’s about 6*8*6 interior dimensions and cools great with a 15000 BTU unit. It’s really raised our productivity and produce quality. Instructions were great as well as the advice on how to build/insulate the cooler.

Couple of comments- A helpful addition to the website would be that most AC units go from 110 at 15000 BTU to 220 at 18000 BTU. For an older building like ours it was much easier to go down.

Also another problem we’ve had with our Samsung AC unit is that it won’t reset itself if the power "flickers." No problem with the coolbot, but the AC doesn’t come back on with the power. Is this true on the LG’s also? Not a problem now that we realized that it happens and added a wireless thermometer by the kitchen window so we can monitor the temps in the cooler.
[***COMMENT FROM RON@COOLBOT - LG Brand Air Conditioners (from Home Depot) do NOT need to be reset when there is a power failure. This is the one significant advantage of LG over Samsung]

I didn’t think the frost control was needed until someone knocked the frost wire out and didn’t replace it. AC was a sheet of frost but a couple of minutes of fan only cleaned it right up.

For the floor we used 4*6 rubber stall mats(from tractor supply in our area) on top of the two layers of blue board. It’s made a nice walking surface and adds another ¾ inch of insulation.

Thanks so much

Jim
www.rockygladefarm.com

Emailed picture of Hector @ Conuco Farms in his home-built 8x10 cooler for fresh vegetables for CSA and market sales to NYC Greenmarkets.

To Whom It May Concern:

Just wanted to drop you a line.  I installed the CoolBot unit in my homemade Walk-in cooler.  I purchased all the supplies to make an 8’ by 8’ from Home Depot.  I purchased the air conditioner unit from Circuit City.  Totally I have approx 15 hours in design and installation.  The total price was under $1400.00 which is a huge difference from $5k I was quoted for the same size cooler.   It has worked flawlessly since the time I turned it on.   If you ever have anyone skeptical of your product, feel free to forward this email to them.   It only took minutes to install and I’m 100% satisfied!

Everyone that sees it is highly impressed.  My sole purpose is to use the cooler to hang deer in.  I’m in charge of a D-map program (the county allows me to harvest as many deer as possible in the month of Sept,  deer are destroying local farmers crop)  This Sept in Northern VA the weather averaged in the 80 degree range.  Without the cooler I was out of luck.

Also,  bow season starts this Saturday and the temp is suppose to be over 80,  my family and friends wouldn’t be able to hunt without a  place to hang the deer.  We are very responsible hunters,, we eat deer meat twice a week and give the rest to needy families!

Thanks to the CoolBot,  I have no worries! Great Product!  Please give my comments to the developer!  Awesome!

Samuel R.

Marshall VA 20116

www.silentpartnersecurity.com

"This thing is AMAZING! I'm just using an 8000 btu Samsung a/c I got for $200 from Lowe's and my room is staying steady at 42 degrees!"
-Tim

Farmer in North Carolina

“Dear Ron ...The new Kenmore got the temp down to 40 degrees from 70 in just a short time... Thank you!”

-Rick, flower shop owner in West Virginia

http://www.countryroseflowerswv.com/

[Please note: They had originally tried the CoolBot on a Whirlpool A/C unit with a metal temperature sensor and it did not work. We offered to take the unit back but they wanted to try again with an “approved” a/c unit. Also, note that the CoolBot will go lower than 40 degrees, it's thermostatically controlled and they set it at 40 degrees.”

Hello,

This past fall I ordered your devise to control an A/C for a walk-in cooler I had bought to hang deer in that would be harvested in the PA Archery season. Our season has had rather warm weather which required us to quarter and place our deer in refrigerators. As you can expect not many deer fit in a refrigerator. Anyhow I just wanted to thank you and let you know that I have been very satisfied with your invention. My father was a farmer so I have roots in the farming life; I would also like to thank you for being a farmer. I have forwarded your email on to a friend that wants to purchase your devise, and I will continue to spread the word on your invention. All my friends are hunters and all have been impressed with how good the results have been. Many were very skeptical when they brought deer over, because of the temperatures they were afraid of a malfunction and loosing the meat. All are advocates of your devise and I am sure they will be spreading the word and maybe purchasing. I hope that this helps in marketing for you and lets you acknowledge that there is another market for your devise with the hunting world.

Thank you,

Chad D.

Dover, PA

Ron,
First of all I am very pleased with cool-bot I got just in time for the warm spell 2 weeks ago and it did great!( I built a 8X8X8 walk in cooler with floor and ceiling 3 1/2 inches styrofoam)If you have any one in my area thinking about one  you can use me as a reference. I do have a question and it may seem silly but now that the temp is low and below freezing at night should I remove the cool-bot and move to a warmer location? I know it is made for refrigeration but I am not sure if freezing is a factor?
Thanks
Dante Picarelli
www.salpicados.com
 
PS my area would be north central Pennsylvania 50 miles south of Hazelton, 50 miles north of Harrisburg and about 50 miles west of Williamsport

Just want you to know,that coolbot is real good.. i finished my 6by6 cooler and even with this heat the last few days,it has been at 40,have had it as low as 32.  thanks again.

Mark S.

Plainfield, CT

Hi Ron, We have the cool bot up and running.  I hate to sound melodramatic,
but it is life changing!  No more juggling space in the refrigerators,
combining this and that.   We have the temperature set for 42F (mostly
squash and beans) and it has maintained a very constant 42-44 for four days.
We inadvertently turned off the power for 7 hours.  The temperature went up
to 68 before we discovered it.  It was back to 43 in 30 minutes!!  That
really surprised me- thought it would take hours.  We are thoroughly
enjoying our new cool room (especially on 96 degree days!).  Is there
anything else you need to know?
Great article in Growing for Market. We both want to reread it and then
might have 1 or 2 questions. Are you going to do any more post harvest
articles for them?  I think it should be a series.  That is one area that is
very lacking in information.  When we go to Organic Growers Schools, etc.,
very rarely is that a subject.
Thanks, Margaret

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