How many amps
Going to be dry camping at me Mexico balloon fest first week October. From 9pm to 7am batteries only. Have residential refrigerator and maxxair fan in fifth wheel. How many amps total in batteries wou...
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I think that max air uses 3 amps on high less than 1 amp on low
30 amps hours would be halve of one small car battery
Not RV house batteries
30 amps hours would be halve of one small car battery
Not RV house batteries
kohldad wrote:
The residential fridge is going to be the biggest problem. If you don't open up the doors and have some ice jugs you can put in there, it would help the load. An alternative would be a few pounds of dry ice wrapped in a towel.
Doing a quick internet search, it seams for 11 hours you will need 200A/hrs which includes the inverter draw, so about 182 A/hr for the 10 hours you specify. This will required 4 batteries to provide the power.
The maxair set on it's lowest setting will draw about 3A/hr for the 10 hours means 30A/hrs. That is a little over 1/2 of one battery. The other standard parasitic draws will require the rest of the battery. This also means very little light usage.
Therefor, you may squeeze by with 5 batteries unless you help the fridge with ice jugs (which you can refreeze each day while on the generator). The ice jugs would probably give you enough to spare for the lights.
Edit: Here is the article for reference on someone who put a residential fridge in their RV: Article
