Residential Refrigerator
(Residential Refrigerator) you folks that have replaced your RV fridge with a residential one, did you have to modify the cabinet a lot where the RV refrigerator was placed?? I can not take the bot...
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Billinwoodland wrote:Groover wrote:
"Once you go residential, you will never want to go back to an absorption RV fried. Cold beer and hard ice cream is great! " I absolutely agree but on my trip to Glacier NP it would have been nice to have the gas option so that my batteries would last longer. It was too shady in the campsite for solar cells and generator hours were very limited. I cannot imagine why camper fridges don't have at least a compressor chilling unit from a dorm type refridgerator in them. Heck, the whole fridge only costs about $100 so the chiller must only be about $50. On a $1,500 RV fridge that would be trivial.
Wife and I plan to do a fair amount of boondocking. All the newer MHs that we have looked at have residential frig installed. While I understand that the battery capacity on the coach determines how long you can go without the generator on, on the average, how much do you need to run the generator to keep the house batteries charged and the frig cold?
Depends on the weather, or more specifically the amount of sunshine. If it is sunny for most of the day a couple of 200 watt solar panels will cover all the needs of the fridge on a daily basis. With no sun I would count on 45 to 90 minutes per day with a robust 60 amp or greater charger. Run it at meal prep time so you have 120 for the kitchen appliances as well. This is how we roll.
