dry camping with residential refrigerators

MrWizard wrote:
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"

Mr Wizard, you are very skilled at this whole business, and have that res fridge, which was a good deal compared with replacing the original propane/electric, but I do remember, even so, that not long ago, you were looking at those newer sort of RV fridges that use propane too. Except they cost a lot of money, so that went out the window.

OP, if you can start off with a fridge that will work on propane or 120v, that is the way to go, so you don't end up a s prisoner of the the fridge. You can run it on 120v when circumstances permit.