Residential Fridge Report
Many folks are asking about residential fridges so here's my report FWIW. Samsung 18cf came installed and with only one battery. Dealership added one at my insistence. They're typical hybrid Interstat...
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Ivylog wrote:
Sounds like you may be drawing the batteries down below 50 percent... Not good for them so what was the voltage? My 21 CuFt draws 8 amps and runs less than 12 hours per day... Less than 100 AH/ day. Your Samsung should use slightly less and runs well on a MSW inverter. If you boondock often I would want four batteries.
It was an impromptu test resulting from being too tired to unload the RV upon arriving home and not being able to hook up to 120v power that night.
I didn't bother to check the battery voltage. I was surprised there was enough juice to bring in the 6 slides first. I suspect it was 11v or less by the time I tried to retract the levelers because they require, off the top of my head, no less than 11.5v to operate.
My fridge draws 7a or so, and since the doors were not opened during the 17 hours, I'm guessing it didn't operate more than 8 of those hours; perhaps much less.
BTW, I forgot to mention it's a 1000w inverter, and yes (based on this not too scientific test), I'd think anyone boon-docking with a similar setup would need four 6v deep-cycle batteries, preferably a good solar panel supplement, and expect to run a genset to recharge every day.
