Residential Fridge Yay or Nay?
Hello Folks, Many of the new larger 5th wheels these days are equipped with electric only residential fridges. While a nice feature on shore power, it poses some limitations to boon docking or non-p...
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hone eagle wrote:austinjenna wrote:
I go the night before to the storage yard and fire up my propane fridge. Im not sure I would have enough battery power to do that with a residential.
I actually do just that ,2 group 31 batteries .Worst case test , mid 80's temp, fridge at that temp (open doors)with no cool or cold items in fridge I closed the doors and turned it on.
The inverter turned off (low voltage) after about 3 hours but the fridge and freezer were at the requested temp - good to go.
Yah. We also found out that the overnight cooling wasn't necessary. Maybe an hour before you need it turn in on. Good to go.
Fixed the "wasn't" on edit
