dry camping with residential refrigerators
I'm thinking of buying a new motorhome but we do a lot of dry camping and I can't seem to get a straight answer on battery life running these new residential refrigerators. Dealers, salespeople say i...
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we have a residential fridge,
we started with (2) house batteries, and it worked, fridge ran normal all night
charge the next day
but we now have (5) house batteries, same fridge, bigger TV, bigger PC, more hours of daily PC use
LP is very efficient for fridge use in that you get a long time from the amount of LP
but, the residential cools faster, is not finicky about level, and maintains freezing temps in HOT weather, and i can find gas for the generator more places than LP for an RV fridge
and IF i have too, i can turn it off for a few hours, it will cool down very quick when i turn it back on, an LP fridge won't do that, "cool quickly"
we started with (2) house batteries, and it worked, fridge ran normal all night
charge the next day
but we now have (5) house batteries, same fridge, bigger TV, bigger PC, more hours of daily PC use
LP is very efficient for fridge use in that you get a long time from the amount of LP
but, the residential cools faster, is not finicky about level, and maintains freezing temps in HOT weather, and i can find gas for the generator more places than LP for an RV fridge
and IF i have too, i can turn it off for a few hours, it will cool down very quick when i turn it back on, an LP fridge won't do that, "cool quickly"
