UPG 250 amp hour agm batteries
I just finished up my residential refer install with inverter. I have two 75 amp hour batteries that will suffice for now. But this worked so great and I had so much fun with it, I started searching ...
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The key to all electric fridges is storage, if you plan to do any or a lot of dry/boondocking camping. What type(wet or AGM) is your choice depending on your pocket book,time spent on maintenance. inside/outside etc. How you keep your storage full is up to you,(alternator, genny, solar, wind, biosolids= hahaha).
Our 7.5cuft AC/DC fridge/freezer takes the equivilent of a 60w lightbulb when cycling. The cycling times depend on inside temps, door openings. 4 6V AGM batteries with 330W solar have allowed us to dry camp 260 days in the last 2years with less than 5 hours of genny time, and we have lots of other electrical gadjets that we use.Some of these times dry camping have been at times on the west coast when it rained or had heavy cloud cover much of the time.
It is interesting that the naysayers who tell you that all electric fridges don't work unless you are hooked up full time have never tryed them. "They won't work in a Louisiana swamp in July because the draw on the batteries in the heat is too great or Yellowknife in November because of to much battery draw from the furnace fan." Who wants to RV in extreme conditions and be a prisoner in their rig?
Spent 1 week in Catalina SP in March in overflow. Lots of gennies being run by rigs who had traditional absorbtion fridges. Guess who had ice cold beer every day and didn't have to rely on his generator?
Powell Forest canoe circuit. Powell River, BC. July/12. Spent one week early July where every day was cloudy or had rain. Still drycamped/boondocked without running genny.
Dave
Our 7.5cuft AC/DC fridge/freezer takes the equivilent of a 60w lightbulb when cycling. The cycling times depend on inside temps, door openings. 4 6V AGM batteries with 330W solar have allowed us to dry camp 260 days in the last 2years with less than 5 hours of genny time, and we have lots of other electrical gadjets that we use.Some of these times dry camping have been at times on the west coast when it rained or had heavy cloud cover much of the time.
It is interesting that the naysayers who tell you that all electric fridges don't work unless you are hooked up full time have never tryed them. "They won't work in a Louisiana swamp in July because the draw on the batteries in the heat is too great or Yellowknife in November because of to much battery draw from the furnace fan." Who wants to RV in extreme conditions and be a prisoner in their rig?
Spent 1 week in Catalina SP in March in overflow. Lots of gennies being run by rigs who had traditional absorbtion fridges. Guess who had ice cold beer every day and didn't have to rely on his generator?
Powell Forest canoe circuit. Powell River, BC. July/12. Spent one week early July where every day was cloudy or had rain. Still drycamped/boondocked without running genny.
Dave
