First Time Buyers - Help Wanted
Hey everyone :) Me and my girlfriend have spent the last 2 1/2 years together (we both work from home) and have decided to dive into full time RVing. After initially looking at travel trailers, 5th...
Forum Discussion
tinkerer wrote:
If a diesel is purchased a residential refrigerator will be a blessing as they generally have a an inverter and batteries that easily take care of a residential refrigerator. Posters on this site report the batteries are going 12-18 hours without charge. Most posters who replaced their rv refrigerator with a residential refrigerator have not looked back. Now a gas powered motorhome might be a different story.
Just by way of comparison, I can (in my lowly class C) go for at least five days fairly easily without using the generator with an absorption fridge, a relatively modest battery bank (a pair of golf cart batteries), and no solar. 12-18 hours really doesn't sound very good to me for boondocking or camping without hookups; that requires running the generator twice a day rather than twice a week, a rather big difference.
Obviously a larger battery bank and preferably a decent solar installation would make things rather more practical. Likewise, for people who mainly camp with electric hookups, a residential fridge makes a whole lot of sense--and that does indeed cover many people.
I don't see where the motorhome's chassis fuel requirements enter into the discussion at all here, assuming the generator runs on the engine's fuel source (and isn't, say, a propane powered generator on a diesel motorhome). If it's a propane generator, that would seem to me to make a residential fridge even less desirable for dry camping.
