Dometic or residential refrigerator?
I am seeing a lot of newer coaches with residential style fridges that run on an inverter. I assume that they cannot run on propane. Are these or the Dometic 4-door fridges that run on propane/el...
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The pluses and minuses.
Residential refrigerators do a better job of maintaining temperature in hot weather. An ice maker is a realistic option !
RV refrigerators give you the freedom to camp without electricity. If you frequently camp without electric hookup, residential refrigerator are probably NOT for you. You would likely need FOUR 6V golf cart batteries and a large solar set up or be willing to run a generator several hours per day.
Obviously a good quality pure sine wave inverter is required.
When driving, a simple parallel battery charging setup should run the inverter but it will NOT recharge your battery bank.
Residential refrigerators do a better job of maintaining temperature in hot weather. An ice maker is a realistic option !
RV refrigerators give you the freedom to camp without electricity. If you frequently camp without electric hookup, residential refrigerator are probably NOT for you. You would likely need FOUR 6V golf cart batteries and a large solar set up or be willing to run a generator several hours per day.
Obviously a good quality pure sine wave inverter is required.
When driving, a simple parallel battery charging setup should run the inverter but it will NOT recharge your battery bank.
