Why consider 12v fridge for boondocking?
So I want to offer up this question out about 12v compressor refrigerators. I'm going to post this on other forums too, so your "forum tramps"(like me)may see this spread around some other pages. Not...
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It’s worth taking the thoughts expressed, and — as some have — look at the RV total nights aboard times X-persons without a supply run.
Two weeks?
30-nights?
Build a plan around all capacities.
Factor weather and filtering own water to refill fresh tank.
(Dig a hole to empty black/grey; this is a thought-exercise).
It’ll come down to propane every time.
Solar panel ADDITION is nice, but one can beef the TV charging ability to do the same.
A bit of solar. More A-H capacity. And a third propane tank.
You tell us you’ve found great Aunt Mabel’s squirrel stew recipe, we’ll know you’ve found the end.
FWIW, I use a Dometic portable in the big truck as a deep freeze. That’d be worth having while camping (kept in covered pickup bed) where engine-run or solar panel befitted a A VERY LOW USE 12V item (not opened except rarely). Some dry ice goes a very long ways.
All-electric is a lie. Hybrid MIGHT have some kind of future, so look to that way of thinking.
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Two weeks?
30-nights?
Build a plan around all capacities.
Factor weather and filtering own water to refill fresh tank.
(Dig a hole to empty black/grey; this is a thought-exercise).
It’ll come down to propane every time.
Solar panel ADDITION is nice, but one can beef the TV charging ability to do the same.
A bit of solar. More A-H capacity. And a third propane tank.
You tell us you’ve found great Aunt Mabel’s squirrel stew recipe, we’ll know you’ve found the end.
FWIW, I use a Dometic portable in the big truck as a deep freeze. That’d be worth having while camping (kept in covered pickup bed) where engine-run or solar panel befitted a A VERY LOW USE 12V item (not opened except rarely). Some dry ice goes a very long ways.
All-electric is a lie. Hybrid MIGHT have some kind of future, so look to that way of thinking.
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