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tedzo
Explorer
Jun 19, 2014

New dometic new gen is drawing more power than old fridge.

Just had new fridge installed and now batterey will not last through the night. This has happened every time dry camping. Batterey checks out fine, fridge is on gas only, never had problem with old ...
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solismaris
Explorer
Jun 19, 2014
Something is very wrong. You should be able to go literally weeks with the fridge set to gas. The power consumption of the electronics is very low.

Do you have a 3-way fridge (gas / 12 volts DC / 120 volts AC)?

The only thing I can think is that you are running on 12 volts DC - either because you have set the switch that way or because something is wired wrong.

A fridge running on 12 volts DC could easily run down a battery in a short time; I could believe overnight.

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