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Sandia_Man
May 19, 2015Explorer II
Just measure DC voltage at your rig's battery when you're attached to your truck and truck is running. Should see 13.2 or better if voltage is actually reaching your RV battery, and if it is it's still not delivering the amount of amperage being consumed by your inverter while powering your fridge. Not worth the hassle of running thicker wire when propane option on fridge is functional.
I did the same thing and ran our fridge via inverter a couple times while traveling down the road and discovered that my battery was down although I was receiving a charge via alternator. Since we camp off the power grid most times getting to your campsite with depleted batteries is the wrong way to start a camping trip where shorepower is unavailable. We set our fridge to auto.
I did the same thing and ran our fridge via inverter a couple times while traveling down the road and discovered that my battery was down although I was receiving a charge via alternator. Since we camp off the power grid most times getting to your campsite with depleted batteries is the wrong way to start a camping trip where shorepower is unavailable. We set our fridge to auto.
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