Residential refrigerator yeah.
After band aiding a norcold 1210 frig for several months we made the move to a Samsung 18 cu ft vs the 12 cu ft old one. you may ask the cost well it was less than putting a new cooling unit on the ol...
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My EnergyStar Whirpool 21 CuFt Refer has a energy guide of $44/year and 410,000 kWh/year or 1,123 W/day or 94 Amps/day. Increase the AH to 115 for the ice maker and warm days. I have four 115 AH AMG batteries dedicated for the refer... so I can go two days without recharging at 50%.
Even before switching to residential I had to run my generator 2-3 hours/day to keep my 800 AH battery bank up when boondocking as I was running an office out of the MH. Having replaced the energy hog Plasma TV with a LED and not needing to have a office I estimate that 1.5-2 hours should do it as the refer's battery bank has it's own 100 amp charger. Yes, I now have over 1200 AH of house batteries.
Here is my DIY 1200 removal and a 21 Cu Ft install. While running it uses 8 amps of DC power and I added a switch and cables so my alternator will supply the 8 amps when traveling.
Even before switching to residential I had to run my generator 2-3 hours/day to keep my 800 AH battery bank up when boondocking as I was running an office out of the MH. Having replaced the energy hog Plasma TV with a LED and not needing to have a office I estimate that 1.5-2 hours should do it as the refer's battery bank has it's own 100 amp charger. Yes, I now have over 1200 AH of house batteries.
Here is my DIY 1200 removal and a 21 Cu Ft install. While running it uses 8 amps of DC power and I added a switch and cables so my alternator will supply the 8 amps when traveling.
