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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pianotuna wrote:
Just to add to consumption figures, the Dometic absorption I use consumes a whopping 5.7 KWH per day. That works out to 452 amp-hours @ 12 volts.
Don ... this is a snip from one of your earlier posts in this discussion ... but I really had to double-check it out with you: When heating with propane and powering it's control board with 12 volts -> what absorption refrigerator takes 452 amp-hours per day?
Our RV's Norcold absorption refrig uses about 0.5 amps per hour (continuously, whether cycled ON or OFF) from our house batteries along with sipping propane when cycled ON for heating when drycamping. Although our absorption refrig can operate using only electricity for both it's heating and control, no one of course would use it this way when drycamping with it because it would require way too much power from the house batteries to do this. When switched to propane mode as it should be for drycamping, sipping propane as the source of heat for it's operation of course is the main reason for using an absorption refrigerator for off-the-grid RV camping.
I'm sure you know all of the above, but what were you referring to?
