Residential Fridge battery run time

austinjenna wrote:

Doubt you'll get a new camper with a residential fridge and 1 battery, but in general, OE power and a residential compressor fridge is still a poor combination.
I know you think you have just a specific short term situation that you will need to run off of an inverter, but it's quite possible that you're not considering all scenarios. You only travel an hour or 2? Charging while traveling? Run onboard genny or install a heavy duty dc dc charger?

I'm not even sure what you are talking about. If you read my initial post I was wondering how long it would run on 1 battery because currently with my gas/electric fridge I start it up the night before in the storage lot then the next morning when I bring it home its cold, then load cold items into it and done.

I was wondering if I could do the same thing with a residential fridge and it seems from the responses the answer is no unless I add more batteries.

My storage lot is 2 miles from my house, so picking it up, turning on the fridge, it will not cool down in the 5 minute ride home to start stocking it up.

I know the batteries charge while driving.

Yes, that is evident. I was attempting to think ahead to more than just the pre-cooling of your fridge and a more realistic setup of what you could expect in a new camper.
But simple questions beget simple answers. And sooner or later you’ll learn some of the other aspects, like “how much” your truck charges the camper while driving. And other things that will help you understand what affects what.
In the meantime, my apologies.
1 battery won’t run a resi compressor fridge very long.