Pre cooling a residential fridge
For those of you that have one in your rig, what do you do to pre-cool it? I have the standard 3-way fridge now and go the night before and fire it up on propane. We have been recently looking at some...
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Austinjenna wrote:
I dont think I did a good job of asking. Currently I go the day before we leave, turn the fridge on propane then the next day bring it home, we load up the food and go. So how do you accomplish the same thing if your rig has the electric only 120V fridge?
Bring the trailer home, power up the fridge, and 15 minutes later, load the food into the fridge. Residential fridges, especially small ones, cool down exceptionally fast.
Yes, if you want the 120V fridge to operate in transit, you'll need an inverter to power the fridge from the batteries. Depending on the charge circuit from your towing vehicle, the amount of battery storage, and the electrical draw of the fridge, will all factor in to how this all works out.
