Electrical: DC AC Conversions - Efficiency
I am an Electricity Novice: Assumptions: Boon-docker - does not use shore power, uses Solar Panels and Batteries, or generator. Refrigerator does not have propane option...electric only, AC or DC. ...
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What you are leaving out is that when you use an inverter to run the refrigerator on 120V, the power is still coming from the battery. The input to the inverter will be around 10X the current coming out of the inverter (wattage is the same, so one tenth the voltage will have to push ten times the current).
With the losses produced in the inverter, I suspect you will be better off running directly from the battery.
With the losses produced in the inverter, I suspect you will be better off running directly from the battery.
