Travato refrigerator
Read in one of the posts on the Travato that they were having trouble lighting the refrigerator on propane. Does the fridge not have auto ignition? Is it a two way, or three way fridge? Thanks,...
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wincrasher65 wrote:
No inverter in Travato or the new Pleasureway Lexor. The TV and the stereo/dvd system are all native 12 volt. I'm see that in all the new rv's lately - 12 volt tv sets! A great idea since an LED LCD TV set uses all of 50 watts.
I did buy a 500watt pure sine inverter just to carry along in case I were to need one. I'm probably going to mount it under the driver's seat and hard wire it to the chassis battery. I figure it would be OK to run a laptop on or a phone charger. Nothing serious.
I think running the refer off an inverter is kinda a nutty idea. It's not going to really run any better on 110 than on propane (considering it's an absorption fridge). It will run a loooong time on the propane and your only competitor for it's use is the cooktop. So unless you are running heat, you have months of cooking and refer use with the onboard tank.
Agree that all low-wattage devices are best run at native 12VDC. (Which is why compressor fridges make so much sense). The problem is high-wattage devices (typically air conditioning and microwave). Even with the engine running and an adequate generator, high currents at 12VDC would require ridiculously large wires. This is why the world went to AC in the first place.
As for running the fridge on propane, I don't see why one would want to use propane while underway. No matter how much propane one has, why consume it unnecessarily? Plus, it is arguably safer to have your propane turned off while driving (although I am NOT saying that it is unacceptable not to do so). I just see no downside to running on AC, but to each his or her own...
