To keep refrigerator running
Here is my history, I just sold my TC and bought a TT. To keep my fridge working, I installed a second battery with a smart isolator in my 2011 Silverado 1500. To this battery I installed a 2000 watt...
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TakingThe5th wrote:
... but if you want to try an electrical solution why not supply a 12 volt heat source to the absorption frig and avoid the electrical loss and the cost of an inverter? 3-way absorption refrigerators used to be offered but you don't see them much anymore, I wonder why?
Simple - excessive current draw. That said, many of us who have owned a 3-way gas absorption fridge in our popups would run them on gas anyway as it's far more efficient, 12 vdc being the least. BTW, now you want the OP to modify a perfectly good 2-way gas absorption fridge with some sort of 12 vdc electric heating element which it was never designed to run on just to avoid the use of an inverter he already owns? :h
I agree with Ozlander - using an inverter to power a 2-way gas absorption fridge is a solution to a problem that does not exist. :R
