Residential refrigerator
I just bought a new 5er with a residential refrigerator, it has a 1000 watt inverter. I tried to run the refrigerator off the inverter yesterday and it did not appear to be working, the light was on, ...
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naturist wrote:
I would very much doubt any residential refrigerator would run off a mere 1,000 watt inverter. While such a unit might only draw 600-700 watts while running, the starting surge would be in the neighborhood of 2,000 watts, way beyond the capacity of that inverter. A 1500 watt inverter MIGHT have enough surge capacity, but not a 1,000 watt inverter.
Many of them are operating just fine with 1000 watt inverters. The standard inverter DRV supplies with a residential fridge is a 1000 watt. They have a larger inverter and larger coach battery system with 2 additional 6VDC batteries as an option to power more appliances in addition to the residential fridge. The 1500 watt PSW inverter in our DRV is more than is needed to power the residential fridge - it's been doing it just fine since we took delivery in May 2014.
Rusty
