Residential fridge and dry camping
Sorry if this is an old topic. I didn't find too much on a search. With the big push (it seems) for residential refrigerators in new Class A's, I wonder what some are experiencing when camping witho...
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Hi Ivylog,
I do live in an area where there is little shade and lots of sun. As a weekend warrior, when I had 875 amp-hours of battery bank, and 256 watts of solar panels, I regularly did all my cooking and coffee making without a generator. I did that for five years. Sometimes I'd even use the water heater on 120 volt.
Once I became full time I needed a generator or a massive rebuild on the solar. I chose the generator. That was the wrong path for me, and if I were starting over I'd go for the solar solution.
I do live in an area where there is little shade and lots of sun. As a weekend warrior, when I had 875 amp-hours of battery bank, and 256 watts of solar panels, I regularly did all my cooking and coffee making without a generator. I did that for five years. Sometimes I'd even use the water heater on 120 volt.
Once I became full time I needed a generator or a massive rebuild on the solar. I chose the generator. That was the wrong path for me, and if I were starting over I'd go for the solar solution.
Ivylog wrote:
Anytime you run a high amp appliance, you need to crank your generator unless you have 1000+ W solar and close to that in AH batteries. When the DW starts dinner she cranks the generator and we shut it off after 1.5 hours. In the morning when making coffee I run it for half an hour.
