GetSnus was running a special (now expired), a roll of 01 and a General USB snus fridge for $40. I was planning on buying 01 (which I think is becoming my old standby) anyway, so I gave it a shot, and they arrived today.
The fridge is rather cheap. The plastic door doesn't always snap shut, and there was something metal rattling around, so I immediately took it apart to play with it. The fridge will hold about 5 cans of snus. On the bottom is the cooling assembly: a peltier plate at the top of the assembly, a fan on the bottom, and a slotted heatsink between them. (The rattling was a nut that attached the fan to the heatsink; I screwed it back in.)
There is a plastic lip surrounding the top of the peltier plate, so the cans usually don't touch the peltier plate directly. At most I'm seeing a small cooling effect on the bottom can, but I can't see it doing anything whatsoever for the rest of cans. (There is no internal fan to move the cold air next to the peltier plate to the rest of the compartment.)
So it really doesn't work as a snus fridge. However, the instruction sheet that came with it revealed its true purpose: it was designed as a soda/beer can cooler, and General repurposed it as a snus cooler. The fridge stores one 12oz aluminum can perfectly, and the bottom lip of the can comes in direct contact with the peltier plate, so it'll transfer to the entire can.
The best part is the instruction sheet that comes with it. It actually lists "minimum system requirements":
I plugged it into my powered USB hub.
The fridge is rather cheap. The plastic door doesn't always snap shut, and there was something metal rattling around, so I immediately took it apart to play with it. The fridge will hold about 5 cans of snus. On the bottom is the cooling assembly: a peltier plate at the top of the assembly, a fan on the bottom, and a slotted heatsink between them. (The rattling was a nut that attached the fan to the heatsink; I screwed it back in.)
There is a plastic lip surrounding the top of the peltier plate, so the cans usually don't touch the peltier plate directly. At most I'm seeing a small cooling effect on the bottom can, but I can't see it doing anything whatsoever for the rest of cans. (There is no internal fan to move the cold air next to the peltier plate to the rest of the compartment.)
So it really doesn't work as a snus fridge. However, the instruction sheet that came with it revealed its true purpose: it was designed as a soda/beer can cooler, and General repurposed it as a snus cooler. The fridge stores one 12oz aluminum can perfectly, and the bottom lip of the can comes in direct contact with the peltier plate, so it'll transfer to the entire can.
The best part is the instruction sheet that comes with it. It actually lists "minimum system requirements":
- PC and Macintosh platforms
32 MB of system RAM
100 MB available hard disk space
One available USB 1.1 port
I plugged it into my powered USB hub.