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...
Forum Discussion
Good morning.
Two things. To precool a residential takes a fraction of the time so a ciuple things may work for you.
* Can you bring power to the rig when parked outside of the house. You don't need much in the way of current. Eg...no 30 amp needed.
* Do you have a small generator you can run for an hour or two the morning of
* Can you install an inverter. Fairly simple if it is just dedicated to the fridge.
Tell us a little about your rig. How many batteries etc.
The fridge won't use any more than a flat screen TV so its probably considerably less than you think. Even a couple of 6 volts will run a fridge for a day. But like I said they don't have to run long to get cold. An hour tops.
Hope this helps.
Two things. To precool a residential takes a fraction of the time so a ciuple things may work for you.
* Can you bring power to the rig when parked outside of the house. You don't need much in the way of current. Eg...no 30 amp needed.
* Do you have a small generator you can run for an hour or two the morning of
* Can you install an inverter. Fairly simple if it is just dedicated to the fridge.
Tell us a little about your rig. How many batteries etc.
The fridge won't use any more than a flat screen TV so its probably considerably less than you think. Even a couple of 6 volts will run a fridge for a day. But like I said they don't have to run long to get cold. An hour tops.
Hope this helps.
