Residential Refrigerators
We are looking at a toy hauler which has a residential refrigerator powered by an inverter. The salespeople, their supervisor, and so on say that you can run the refrigerator on one battery using the...
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Swamp Man wrote:
I know that the refrigerator would not be running all of the time, but it would still consume power even when the compressor isn't running. Also, the refrigerator would not be accessed that much when on the road. Wondering if this is a deal breaker. I am told that a lot of the manufacturers are going to the residential refrigerators due to cost.
The fridge does not use any power when the compressor is not running but the inverter will use a tiny bit while sitting idle. It's very small, however. Even driving I would assume you have a setup that will charge your batteries while driving so fully charged batteries should remain fully charged while driving even with the fridge running.
By no means is it a deal breaker. It's a great safety feature and compared to an RV fridge you have more storage, better cooling and no issues with defrosting.
