Newbie needs help with refrigerator question
New to truck campers, I've been lurking here for a bit and am grateful to all the truck camper owners who so freely share their time and expertise. I've not seen this question addressed. The refrigera...
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I would just run the fridge on propane assuming it has some way of restarting itself if the flame blows out (we had an ancient fridge which you started manually with those piezo-electric starter buttons - that definitely didn't autostart :R).
My fridge would also run on 12v, but I wouldn't recommend doing that (or 110v via an inverter). From my experience the heater takes quite a lot of current and you could compromise your camper battery doing this (I reckon I killed at least one of my camper batteries by leaving the fridge on 12v when driving - the wiring from the truck alternator just didn't supply enough current to properly charge the camper battery AND run the fridge at the same time).
Steve.
My fridge would also run on 12v, but I wouldn't recommend doing that (or 110v via an inverter). From my experience the heater takes quite a lot of current and you could compromise your camper battery doing this (I reckon I killed at least one of my camper batteries by leaving the fridge on 12v when driving - the wiring from the truck alternator just didn't supply enough current to properly charge the camper battery AND run the fridge at the same time).
Steve.
