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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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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Aug 04, 2020
There are Friges and Friges. At one time both Dometic and No-Cold offered high effiency 12/120 volt Fridges.. They used what I call "Danfoss Class" compressors (Danfoss is one company that makes them) I have a chest freezer next to me that uses a competitor's compressor. 36 watts. that's 3 amps at 12 volt or about 30 hours on a pair of GC-2.

I think the Uprights were about 40 watts. By comparison a pair of 1141 light bulbs. 38

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