I used to play around with watt meters. But i fried them. Have you ever heard of a technical tap? Wonder if you could smack it around a little. Get them solder joints back to touching. (park jokes and part serious)
From what you guys describe is sounds like the clamp meter wont be accurate. Hopefully one of my watt meters still works down at low rating.
Just realized i have a Dometic 2852. Mine cycles a good 8 times a day. I have a thermometer that forms a graph so its easy to count the peaks. Curious like you how much the actual usage is over 24 hours. I can find out for this model. Hope its similar to yours. Ballpark i guess?