Bad Xantrex or bad batteries
Last week I got some help from you guys when I had an issue while trying to see how long my residential fridge would run on the two 6 volt golf cart batteries I had put in last fall. When I checked on...
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mrad wrote:
In my earlier post, some commented the Xantrex 1000 might be too small. After thinking about it, I know it worked for a few hours last October. When we got ot our campsite, they had put us in a 30 amp, so I had to run around town looking for an adaptor. When none was to be found, I bought a gas can and put gas in the onboard tank so I could use the generator to give the batteries a good charge when needed. The batteries seemed to make it through the night.
AS I stated earlier, a 1000 watt Inverter has more than twice the power to run a residential refer. BATTERIES and Capacity of Batteries is your limiting factor. You could have a 2500 watt Inverter and you would still have the same problem. Doug
FYI, most class A Oems will state no more than 24 hours running a residential refer with just 2 deep cycle batteries. You CAN run longer, but they state 24 hours.
