Residential Fridge or Not?
the Wife and I are shopping and we see a lot of fivers with residential Fridges and Inverters in them now. Are they really more prone to breakdown because of the bouncing around in the trailer or it ...
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austinjenna wrote:
How do you guys pre-cool the fridge and how long does that take? Currently I go to the storage lot and fire up my fridge the night before we leave. Would a residential be able to do that for lets say 12 hrs maybe running off 2 12volts?
We store our RV at a storage lot that has no electricity (for us), I usually go over early in the morning to start the fridge. We load it up later around noon or so and it's plenty cool by then. I simply turn on the inverter and the fridge starts running, very simple.
If you have your batteries fully charged when you start up the fridge, running the fridge for a day, day and a half shouldn't be a problem. I did it with two six volt before I hooked up the solar panels. The solar will keep up with the fridge, my trouble is here in Wisconsin I don't get 100% sunshine so if we have a couple of "grey" days in a row my solar power is pretty much zilch until the sun shines again
Thanks for the info. I also store mine off sight, have 2 12V batteries and a 120w solar panel that keeps them topped off. I may not always have the luxury of starting it up only a few hours before we leave and may have to do it the night before we leave. I didnt know if it could go that long oe not. Thanks again
