A new trend in RV fridges?
while picking up some odds and ends for our upcoming trip, we poked around in some new trailers for some giggles fire places and tiny walled off bedrooms? obviously rv designers don't go camping! ...
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landyacht318 wrote:
Danfoss compressors are variable speed. The bd35f is 2000 to 3500 rpm. 2.7 to ~6.5 amps.
The bd-50 is for bigger fridges. More amp draw, not sure exactly how much. But it is also variable speed, variable amp draw, determined by resistance on the thermostat circuit.
Blanket statements are unwise. Makes every sentence surrounding them suspect and easily dismissable as the ravings of an uninformed half wit.
I have a small 1.8 cubic foot fridge. Averaged 0.62 ah consumed each hour over 3 days in average 75f temps, the last time I bothered recording actual data.
I have a 800 watt msw inverter. It consumes 0.68 amps simply turned on.....powering nothing.
My inverter turned on, powering nothing, therefore consumes more than my fridge does on average, over the same time span.
As for propane fridges..... i stuffed 8 12 oz 78f cheap american beers in my danfoss powered compressor fridge at 4:30pm. At 7:45 they were ice cold.
Good luck achieving that with an absorption fridge.
Can't imagine worrying about propane level to keep food from spoiling. Or having to park nearly level. Or the electrics monitoring an absorption fridge using more than my compressor fridge, or an inverter on standby waiting for a residential compressor to fire up, using more than the my small danfoss powered fridge itself consumes over the same time period.
This thread has become ridiculous.
Your opinions are delusional. Mine are fact.
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Seee? Ridiculous!
Hmmmm ... your's is an awful small refrig -> so it better not draw much current when cycled ON.
Our 6.2 cubic foot 120V AC/propane refrig draws only about 0.50 amp each hour when running on propane ... but of course it cycles ON and OFF ... so this 0.50 amp draw is only part-time. We like fresh food - as opposed to canned and/or dry packaged foods - and as such our size refrig gets us by for up to 2 weeks. It's freezer can be run slightly less than zero degrees or slightly more than zero degrees depending on how I set it's 5-position control switch.
We don't worry about propane level keeping food cold, because A) we have 60 lbs. of propane, and B) either our built-in generator or backup portable generator can of course alternatively power the refrigerator in it's 120V AC mode.
As far as "being level" is concerned, A) we want to park/camp level anyway for comfort, and B) RV manufacturers could easily offer a propane refrigerator option in which the unit was mounted on a gimbal so that it would ALWAYS be kept level.
So far after around 13 years, our RV's Norcold refrigerator has been performing as the great invention it is - as per this expert: https://www.wired.com/story/einsteins-little-known-passion-project-a-refrigerator/
