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John___Angela
Sep 06, 2014Explorer
I agree that the push towards residential is not fire based but rather size and feature based for the cabinet size and money. Any residential fridge can be used in a dry camp capacity if a proper sized battery bank and solar configuration is used. From my experience a minimum 400 watt or greater solar array should do the job and a minimum of 2 X 6 volt batts and preferably 4 X 6 volt batts. Solar is cheap nowadays so the little additional cost to add a large solar array to the roof of a new unit is not a show stopper in my opinion. We have a 22 cubic foot residential in our big rig but still have a propane electric in our little rig. When it dies we will swap it out for an electric unit with dan foss compressor. We dry camp in both but are well equipted as far as solar and battery.
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