House Refrigerator VS RV Refrigerator
Been looking at new 5th wheel trailers about half coming with house refrigerator (110 volt only) and the other half coming with large RV refrigerator (propane, 110 volt). Not sure if going with a h...
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valhalla360 wrote:Adam H wrote:
One last question. With so many houses in North America fitted with natural and propane gas that runs the furnace, hot water, BBQ, range, why is the ratio of compressor vs absorbtion fridges 1,000,000 to 1 for domestic use?
Houses use compressor fridges because they are more energy efficent when plugged in and it's pretty rare to unplug your entire house, so needing a backup power source is unneccessary.
Most RV's are unplugged regularly and when you pay for a site, electricity is thrown in so most don't really care too much about efficency.
If this arguement held weight, RV's would have switched over to compressor based back in the 50's.
Good morning. You gotta fugure though, in the fiftys a compressor fridge would pull 8 amps (120 Volts) or greater while compressor was running. A modern fridge pulls around 1 amp while compressor is running. So not quite the same.
