Residential Fridges
So we’ve been looking to upgrade to a newer travel trailer and have seen a few models we like, one in particular has a residential fridge. Now we don’t travel full time but we do make some two week tr...
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JimK-NY wrote:
I cannot help but wonder if people are discussing a residential refrigerator in an RV.
A residential refrigerator and solar system would be extremely heavy for an RV that is going to be used for thousands or tens of thousands of miles of travel per year. Residential refrigerators are heavy with a moderate sized unit weighting in at roughly 300#.
In our RV we use our res reefer as an RV; we do not do "camping". The 5th wheel is our "hotel" with as many creature comforts as possible. We are disinterested in going into the forests or trails. We prefer paved and immaculate RV resort style traveling.
Upon removing the Nocold we went down in weight; our residential reefer weighs 30 pounds less. Reefer is on 24/7 while traveling, and with a 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter and 2 moderately sized 12v RV/Marine type batteries at the end of the travel day (always going from-to full hookups), final voltage before connecting is about 12.5 to 12.7 volts.
