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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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tedzo
Explorer
Jun 21, 2014
CA Traveler wrote:
I will disconnect monoxide alarms, radio, tv antenna booster and turn on fridge and check draw. If more than 2A then something is definately screwy.
I'd start with measuring the refer since it's been replaced.

A $50 DC clampon ammeter would be a good investment for this and the future. It then becomes trival to measure amps.


Do i Just attach to pos/neg lead behind service panel to get reading?
Thx

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