Samsung 17.5 Fridge Data Plate

howardwheeler wrote:
I have put in that exact fridge on my system precisely because it is an inverter compressor and so far uses far less watts than my original residential Amana side by side that came in the fifth wheel. With a wattmeter attached now for around two months, the fridge is averaging 59 watts per hour. This includes defrost cycles. The old Whirlpool ice maker in the Amana I think sucked a lot of juice because it had heaters to release the cubes, plus it’s defrost cycle pulled a lot. It made my 1000 watts of solar panels inadequate for dry camping for any length of time. I have a 2000 watt Xantrex inverter charger and four class 31 lead acid batteries. That setup seems to keep up now with the lessor load whereas before my batteries would dip too low over a 24 hour period. It’s not a well tuned system but it’s working. The Samsung is quiet too and keeps temperatures perfectly: 37 in the fridge part and -2 in the freezer. I’m very happy with it though I gave up a couple of cubic feet of space.

We like the quiet and ours stays at those temps also. That is one of the reasons we wanted this one. We like our ice cream hard. We don't dry camp except as I stated above. So going 24 hours is not important to us. 8-9 hours is our limit. My wiring will not let me go to 2000. A 1512 would be marginal without changing wiring. We can go to the 1250. We would opt to go from 2 105 to 4 6v agm or may switch to 12v agm, before upgrading the inv/charger.