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 dry camp. We have a 22 cubic foot residential fridge. If you only have four batteries then change them out for AGM and you'll have less loading issues. Put 600 watts of solar on the roof (cheap nowadays). We still run our genny but not for the genny. We tend to run it for 30 to 45 minutes at night during meal prep. This also socks it to the batteries before bed time. Our entertainment centre draws more than our fridge. Ours fridge draws a little over 1.1 amps when compressor on...which is about 1/2 the time.
Go residential. You'll never regret it.
Go residential. You'll never regret it.
