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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Sam Spade wrote:dons2346 wrote:Lwiddis wrote:
" dry camping .... residential refrigerator" equate only with many dollars spent.
Well, this is a worthless post.
Chill Don.
No it isn't.
Dry camping and a "residential" refrigerator don't go well together.
It DOES cost you a lot of money to FORCE that into a convenient operation.
I would almost recommend that an RV previously used all or mostly attached to shore power and "converted" to a 120 V only fridge, be "converted" back to a standard 120/gas model fridge if it will now be used a lot for dry camping. In the long run, the cost might not be that much different and the hassle should certainly be less.
I am chilled. The thing of it is that people that do not have a residential refer after having the old propane/electric refer have no clue as to how efficient a residential refer really is and the power required to maintain it.
Like I said, I manage 20 hours with a residential refer which requires me to run my 3000 watt inverter full time. During that time, I also am powering all of those little niggling draws such as printer, tv's clocks, etc.
