Keeping Things Cold on the Road
Interested to know how long things in refrigerator stay cold while traveling and if anything in the freezer thaws out if we're on, say, an 8 hour road day. Just bought a TT and haven't used it yet.
Forum Discussion
NoVa RT wrote:
I'm still pretty new to this, so I may be missing something, but why the preference for running the fridge on propane while traveling, rather than the batteries, which I have been mostly doing? Agree about hooking up to shore power before a trip to start out with a cold fridge, but I also saw some value to conserving propane, and didn't worry about running down the batteries since we'd hook up to shore power again when we stopped.
IF you have a 3 way fridge (110V AC heater, propane and 12DC heater) then that is what the 12V DC option is good for.....while in transit.
But he 12V DC is NOT a very good option for any other time......small wattage element that draws lots of DC power. They can maintain temps while traveling and battery draw is maintained by tow vehicle charge line/alternator.
BUT lots of fridges are not 3 way any more.....just 110V AC and propane.
So propane is the option for in transit.
