Battery Life With a Residential Fridge
Like many RVers I decided to replace my troublesome rv fridge with a residential. I have read a lot of posts here and other places about doing so and battery life when camping without shore power. So...
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Ontarian wrote:
We have a Pinnacle with a Samsung RF197 which I installed two years ago. Powered full time from a Xantrex 1000 watt pure sine inverter, connected to two Group 24 marine batteries. Fridge will run for 16 hours before voltage drops to 11.5. While driving, charge line from truck keeps battery voltage above 12.5, even while driving all day. Check our blog article for details of the installation.
I followed your link. Thanks for the excellent post. I was thinking of doing the same thing, only on a smaller scale.
Never liked the propane fridge, but anytime someone asked in any of the forums they were told a residential fridge wouldn't work.
I'll now add this to my things todo list.
