Residential fridge
I have noticed a lot of the new campers for sell around here have a Residential fridge instead of rv model around here. While the storage space would be nice how would it work for boondocking. We most...
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rkassl wrote:
RV refrig for me all the way. I don't want to depend on a battery pack to keep my milk cold.
I can understand your feelings, we were leery of the residential refrigerator, given the amount of time we are off the grid. However, our coach can standard with the residential refrigerator, the 6 batteries, mentioned before, and a 2800 watt inverter. At first, I did a frequent check of the batteries. Finally, I realized that it wasn't necessary. (And i've really enjoyed not having to check the water level of the batteries.)
Our refrigerator draws 7.1 amps and each battery is rated at 115 amp-hours.
A big advantage, for me, is no more defrosting. Most every year, we have made a trip of 5 to 9 weeks. I hated defrosting the refrigerators in our previous coaches.
There are other uses for the battery bank and inverter. For example, we can run the microwave - Sarah has to have her hot cup of tea!
Although we had reservations, we are sold.
Tom
