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DieselBurps
Explorer
Sep 25, 2020

2-way refrigerator operation without a battery

I have a basic question I can not find the answer to. I have a Dometic 2 way fridge (propane/120volt) in a 1985 Airstream. I can not get the fridge to run on either 120 volts or gas. I do not ...
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BFL13
Explorer II
Sep 26, 2020
Old-Biscuit wrote:
Why reinvent the wheel.....just put a cheap 12V battery in and be done with it

Simple.........


He does not need a battery while on shore power,and if he had one, it would need recharging/maintaining, and he has that old converter that is likely to do a poor job of that if it even works now.

For the cost of a new battery, he can have that new converter I linked and have no converter issues and no battery to worry about either.

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