goducks10 wrote:
I'm not understanding the res fridge drawing less power as a plus. My RV fridge needs hardly any battery power and runs on propane. No charging of the batteries needed after a week, I have to charge the batteries every couple days from other things we run, but the fridge is not one of them. In order to run a large res fridge, additional batteries, an invertor and some something to keep the fridge batteries charged up is needed. All you're doing is transferring the required power to something else. I just don't see the less power thing. Both run on elec and the RV only needs one battery along with very little propane.
Each to their own I guess.
Goducks10,
I think what we are talking about is the residential fridge uses less energy than a comparable absorbtion unit, so if they were both plugged into shore power, the residential unit would use up 1/3 the power. Absorbtion fridges were developed for the RV industry because people wanted to keep their food from spoiling when away from shore power and this was the best technology at the time(60 years ago). Now with lower cost solar, generators, better, bigger batteries, inverters, bigger ,better alternator systems and much more efficient residential fridges, there is an alternative to the absorbtion units.
Dave
