I purchased the Ice Barrel 500 about 3 months ago. I set up the water chiller and water pump to it just like what Maus showed and it is simply the best $2,100 I have ever spent. It is so nice having it in my home gym and I use it every day at 43 degrees and absolutely love it. If you are thinking about it dont think anymore....Buy it! Find Maus's video on how to set it up and do it. I am actually away on vacation this week and missing the daily plunge.

From a performance standpoint the IceBarrel 500 won wih only a 3 degree variance vs a 4 degrees with the IceBarrel 300. Also there is more volume of water in the 500 hence the higher temp.

Love my IB300 with 1/4hp Active Aqua chiller. Holds the temps where I want with minimal run time in this SE Texas heat!

I have an Ice Barrel 300 and I was Team Ice Barrel 300 this entire video

@DominicZaidan

27 күн бұрын

Yes. Love my ice-barrel-300!

Excellent video!! I’ve been wanting to see a test like this for well over a year. I just received my Frozin 400 plunge, hooked it up to the chiller. I had been using a stock tank DIY for over a year but the DIY insulation job wasn’t cutting it. The Frozin 400 was modeled after the Grizzly, so hopefully it’ll be good. Thanks for doing the work and getting these test results, very helpful information!

Homie, beautiful home. Good for you and I bought the 300 on fathers day because of your vid.

@DavidMausJr

27 күн бұрын

Right on!! God is good

Another great video. I’ve been leaning toward ever 500 so this helps a lot.

Such a cool video! Thank you.

Love my desert plunge grizzly 400.

What up Derek!? Appreciate the vid. I’m currently in an apartment and will be for the next 2 years. I buy about 7 bags of ice and throw them in the tub but I’m really looking for a good chiller and barrel so now looking into the 300. Thanks for sharing!! Any recs on a good chiller?

I was right!!! Now I want the 300 even more. Thank David for all the info on these products and honest reviews.

Might be a useful test if your goal is to use a little ice as possible. Volumes of each are different, so if you want to test which insulates and stays coldest the longest you should try to adjust amount of ice to the volume of each tub.

@DavidMausJr

27 күн бұрын

Great point! That wasn’t my goal. I wanted to see how cold and how long each got with the same $ spent on ice.

I appreciate the hard work on thos

Great video. Thank you sir.

thank you for doing this! it helped my make my final decision!!

@DavidMausJr

15 күн бұрын

Glad to help! What did you go with?

@VenilaRice

15 күн бұрын

@@DavidMausJr after binge watching 20 of your videos, and weighing out pros/cons and finding best deals/sales… I went with 60” inflatable with lid, 1/3hp chiller, 800gph pump, ozone, filters, etc… All in, prob under $700.

Looking at the video it seems there are a couple numbers that are in consistent. I think the main idea still applies and liked the video a lot! The Ice Barrel 400 Tan at hour 7 was 77 from the video and the grizzly shows 69 but your board said 66 for only a plus 1 deg increase. I think the findings are still great and applicable. The different insulation values will end up making it significantly more or less expensive to operate either from ice or chiller.

You have any bubbling on the IB500? Just got mine this week and the lid has bubbling where the plastic wrap has bubbled up. Seems cosmetic but also kinda annoying for the price. Curious if others have the same. I also have some smaller bubbling on the side as well. The lid bubble is maybe a foot across though and more visible.

Wait the 500 had a 3 degree change compared to 4 degrees with the 300. What am I missing here? It cant be based on starting temp if the idea is to find what Barrel holds temperature the best.

@TexasHeightspark

27 күн бұрын

Was just thinking the same thing

@matthewsomaiah5625

27 күн бұрын

@@TexasHeightspark The IB 300 holds 77 gallons and the IB 500 holds 94 gallons. If you put the same amount of LBS of ice into them...there will be a difference in temperature drop. IMO after 10 hours should have an asterisk since it was used by his family, but it's a real world use case. The inverse is true if you have people go into a larger volume of water for impact of temperature raising. (3 vs 4)

@DavidMausJr

27 күн бұрын

Just giving the info. I was looking to see which got the coldest with 56lbs of ice and stayed the coldest. Yes, the water volume is different and made a difference. It wasn’t really about a winner or loser but showing what each did with the same time and use.

@matthewsomaiah5625

27 күн бұрын

@@DavidMausJr Thanks for putting this together.

@TexasHeightspark

27 күн бұрын

@@DavidMausJrThanks for doing the test. My guess is that it was going to be the grizzly

Did you stir it after you poured all that ice in there stir it around a couple times?? (I have a Plunge with a chiller, but I was really interested in this video for a couple friends of mine that don’t have the budget for a Plunge)

Man shoulda opened that 450 for the test since the 400 is discounted from grizzly

David what is that large water filter you have for drinking water?

I wished you tested frozin 400 as well

I had the grizzly to be the winner shocked about the ice barrel 300 making me rethink my decision thanks

Really good experiment

@DavidMausJr

27 күн бұрын

Thank you!

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The volume on the ice barrel 300 is much smaller so for the same amount of ice, less water, it is expected to start at lower temp and hold it better. Doing cold plunge kind of blew off your test as the plunges you started with are surely the ones who got more effect from your bodies temperature. I would bet on a like for like test on the Grizzly or the 500.

When is the ice barrel chiller coming its been too long

To ice bag users: get a chiller.

Love wife's idea on height difference. Heading to her channel after this. I'm 6'3".... can't decide what to do. I would get ice barrel 400 if it was insulated. I'd get ice barrel 300 if i knew i would fit. the Ice barrel 500 feels like overkill on space and cost.

subscribed to your wifes channel!! lol

Is the 400 wrap worth it tho 🤔

@carterpixels

24 күн бұрын

Personally, It does not seem like it. Holding a 3-4º difference IMO does not seem worth it. Ask yourself, is the juice worth the squeeze?