Residential, or reg refrigerator
Anyone with any experience with the new residential refrigerators in RVs. Thinking of buying a unit that has one in it, but not sure if it keeps things cold while traveling. What are the pros and co...
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harold1946 wrote:WyoTraveler wrote:
You need to do your own power calculations. Power required (on placard inside fridge) How much power used off the grid then how much time to charge on the grid before fully charged. I move a lot. Wouldn't work for me. However, your case may be different. I even talked to the solar experts in Q. He said No. Stick with standard fridge. I also heard there are some problems operating on the inverter. Compressor heats up. I bought MH with a standard RV fridge.
Your solar expert is wrong. Properly set up it is possible to boondock with a residential. This is my second RV with a residential and I boondock 90% of the time and have been doing so for 11 years.
RV's built with residentials generaly have PSW inverters and run just fine.
Not all residentials require PSW, (internal recitfier models) will operate on MSW with no ill effects.
I am also a full timer.
Agreed. If you do a lot of dry camping and want a residential fridge just size the solar system appropriately. Have generator as backup for cloudy days. We routinely dry camp with ours. We do run our genny 45 minutes to an hour per day but that is a result of other power hungry devices like Kuerig coffee makers, TV's, beverage water heaters etc etc etc, all which run from the inverters. We are not what you would call power savers. Its our house. We are full timers. We live comfortably. If that means running the genny an hour a day we are good with that.
