Residential Refrig and Dry Camping
I am looking at possibly upgrading to a newer diesel rig. Many of the coaches that I am looking at have residential refrigerators. How do these work while dry camping. I know that you run off the inve...
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Ivylog wrote:
A properly set up rig will have 600 to 800 AH of batteries. My 21 CF refer requires 8 amps when running so in half a day with a 67% duty cycle it will use 64 AH. One 125 AH battery would be enough to keep it at the 50% max discharge rule of thumb for battery life. These Energy Star refer's are very efficient.
I put mine on it's own 500 AH battery bank witk a 1000W PSW inverter with 300W of solar. My house battery bank needs 2 hours/day of generator time so it's not the refer that needs the generator.
Is the 8 amp figure including opening and closing the door a reasonable number of times? What effect does temp inside the motorhome have on the 8 amp figure? For example if we leave it all day while it's 90 plus degrees outside?
