wa8yxm wrote:
Bill.Satellite wrote:
Doesn't that apply to everything? Your Cummings engine is nice....provided it works! Things fail. However, an inverter failing is not an indication that all inverters fail or are unreliable.
My residential fridge was installed in 1999 and is still running just fine. First on a MSW inverter and now on a TSW inverter. With 20 years fulltiming and 17 year of traveling full time I can tell you that there's really no reason to believe that inverters or household fridges in are RV are anything less than awesome!
Well yes, It does, and in fact my Chevy 8.1L Vortec did fail about 3 years ago Just got back on the road this month.
But when the Chevy failed.. The food in the fridge did NOT spoil as secondary damage.. I did not get sick from food poisoning as a reslut.
I must have missed something :h
I have an 8.1, never had any problems with it. Not sure how that relates to running a refrigerator on an inverter.
All things will fail, eventually. Every stop, I check to make sure the refrigerator is humming. I also carry a generator for longer trips for "just in case" scenarios. However, My 2 coach batteries will run the refrigerator for about 16 hours before the inverter will trip on low voltage. That's usually enough time to get where I'm going.
