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BFL13
Jun 17, 2015Explorer II
Ron3rd wrote:
It's interesting that while there is a small drain when the fridge is switched to propane, there is a greater draw when the fridge is left on AUTO while running off propane. My EU2000 generator started tripping the overload circuit breaker when I turned the microwave on and I would not figure out why until I learned on this forum not to leave the fridge set to Auto when using propane. I switched it over to "gas" and no more Honda breaker-tripping. So my take away is it draws much more DC power in the Auto mode.
In "auto" it will go to 120v whenever present, such as when on the generator. It will still need a tiny bit of 12v for the controls
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