Rez fridge question
A blanket question, but on average those with residential fridges, how long will can it run on a single 12V deep cell battery? I know there are variables here, size of battery, parasitic draws etc...
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MrWizard wrote:
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Start up surge was 900-1000 Watts, running use was just over 100 Watts , about 10 amps battery power into the inverter use
I seems to me that the original question did not get a clear answer. As above, a small residential refrigerator will run at roughly 100 watts. That is roughly 10 amps @ 12 volts. A typical RV battery will be in the range of roughly 70 AH with a usable capacity of 35 AH. So a single battery will power the typical smallish residential refrigerator for about 3.5 hours.
The bottomline is a residential refrigerator only makes sense if you will have hookups all the time or you will need to run a generator frequently for long periods of time. You also need to consider turning off the refrigerator when you are no hooked up, for example, when traveling for several hours.
