12 volt Refrigerators
Have any thoughts on the new 12 volt Refrigerators? So far I am impressed with the 10 Q ft. Not much of a amp draw
Forum Discussion
BurbMan wrote:JRscooby wrote:
Change batteries every day? You use that much power?
If you are away from the camper, what is drawing power?
The discussion is around a 12v compressor fridge that would draw a lot more power than an absorption fridge does while running on propane. Somebody posted a model with a power draw of 1.1a @120v, and at that rate, you would get about a day out of a battery. When you come back to camp with the charged battery in the truck, the dead one in the camper would suck it dry.
Ok, they battery is down in about a day. (not been my experience) You come back after say 4 hours of sight seeing. The battery on trailer has about 75% of useable capacity left, right? And the 1 on TV is fully charged. Now if you hook them together, sure the voltage would equalize, But why do that? unhook the one on the camper, and hook cables to the fully charged 1. Next day, or the day after, when ready to go sight-seeing, unplug the TV, hook 75% back up. After 6 more hours, 50%.
