Chum lee wrote:
As previously hinted at, if you have a 2/3 way absorption type fridge, why not divert the excess power generated to that and save some propane? Clearly, if you have a 2 way fridge, you'll need an efficient inverter capable of generating at least +-500 watts on a duty cycle of at least 50%. Just keeping your 1500 watt PSW inverter online full time may be enough to waste enough excess power to solve your issue doing nothing else. IMO, 280 watts of solar wont be enough to run the fridge full time, but hey, it's a start. You'll be spending a lot of time doing load management.
Chum lee
Fridge draws 30 amps on DC side when I run it off of the inverter. Twice as much as my solar panels could provide during the most ideal of conditions. This has crossed my mind as something to do if I found myself with full batteries during peak solar harvest time while camping. But as you said, lots of load management to think of and it would draw from my batteries whenever duty cycle was on.
