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Freightguy
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Jul 27, 2015

Fridge and inverter, can I do this?

Ok, so I have been reading posts about people who changed out their fridges to residential ones. I too did this a couple years ago and the fridge always worked fine on my modified wave inverter. However recently it has determined that it does not like the modified wave inverter and had let me know by putting out a little smoke smell when on it. So when looking at other posts I see a lot of us are trying the same thing, but I could not find any results specific to my situation.

I have a Whirlpool 22 CU Ft. fridge. What I have learned online is that it draws 6.5 amps and times that by 120 = 780 watts times that by 3 for peak surge of 2340 watts. So to cover the peak I have found most 1200 watt pure sine inverters have peak surge of about 2400 to 2500 watts. I have 4 - 6 volt batteries that my current inverter/charger runs on. I would like to dedicate a new pure sine inverter to the fridge and have it powered by the same battery bank. Can it be as simple as just hooking it up? Is there any issue with the fridge running constantly on the inverter only? Is there anything else I should concern myself with?
Thanks,

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