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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justme wrote:
Most trucks charging voltage to a trailer is fused at 25 amps which is 300 watts. So there is no way the batteries can be kept up to full charge while driving with out the additional charge from solar panels.
There most certainly is! Trucks have or can be retrofitted with rather powerful alternators. You can even order them with dual alternators. The power is there.
All you need to do is run much heavier gauge charge wires, and use a separate heavy duty high current connector for them.
