Question on charging batteries with Gen
We will be picking up our new to us toy hauler next week. It has a 23 CF residential refrigerator and an 80 amp converter. For the 1-2 times a year that I do not have shore power, Would my 2200 genera...
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mrad wrote:
The fridge is electric only. After reading through the replies, I am thinking I amy not have an issue. I also have the ryobi 2200. it would be used during the day. At night I would run the onan so we could fire up the AC and put a full charge into the batteries.
I'm now thinking very little charge would be needed for the batteries and the 2200 would mostly power the fridge adn lights if needed.
With two (or more) batteries, if the only 120V thing you're operating is the fridge you should be able to get through the day without using the generator at all--just with the inverter. Running the big generator all night will recharge the batteries, assuming you have a modern multi-stage converter or a decent charger built into the inverter.
