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mrad
Explorer II
Aug 04, 2020

Running a residential fridge on 12 volt power?

My wife and I are getting close to purchasing our first 5th wheel 2 of the models we are looking at have residential refrigerators. A friend of mine said he intentionally avoided a residential because...
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navigator2346
Explorer
Aug 04, 2020
I have gone over 20 hours without power to my residential refer due to a bad transfer switch. Everything was still frozen, the refer portion was still within safe temperature limits. You do need power to the refer 24/7

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