electricity for travel trailer

Buy a cooler and a lot of ice.

Get a propane fridge or propane cooler-style fridge. Or just use ice.

Is this trip to a dry campground unique? For a one trip deal I would suggest you get a cooler and some blocks of ice and use that for a week. There are members here that do run 120v fidges but they have spent a lot of money making it so they can.

Of your options

A small inverter generator is the easiest except that you can not run one 24/7 in most campgrounds. They usually allow a few hours in the morning and again in the evening. That's a lot of time the fridge will have to hold it's own without running including over night.

To keep it running in between you will need a larger battery bank and a inverter to provide 120v .
Those batteries wont last a week so you are back to having a generator to charge them or at least a simple solar set up.

This is why I suggest a cooler with ice blocks if it is a unique trip for you.

Smaller inverter generator $500-900.

Battery bank and inverter maybe $600

Simple solar system $400 or so

Since we only camp without hook ups we have spent the money to be able to do so, I would not have done so for the occasional trip.

If your fridge is a smaller dorm style, you might want to talk to westend. He runs a small dorm fridge off of batteries and solar.

DiskDoctr wrote:
120V only? Full size or dorm size?

Either way, here is a suggestion that can reduce your electrical need and increase the stability of your fridge temp.

ICE. Remember your fridge is essentially a power assisted icebox/cooler. Adding ice to the freezer compartment can significantly reduce your cooling needs.

And to add to that thought... thermal mass.

Bring a cooler full of ice with pop / frozen water bottles / frozen juice boxes. Whenever you have any left-over space inside the fridge, fill it with items from the cooler. It takes a lot of energy to keep the air inside a fridge cold, but cold beverage containers need very little to keep them cold. (Don't put warm pop or water in!!!)

120V only? Full size or dorm size?

Either way, here is a suggestion that can reduce your electrical need and increase the stability of your fridge temp.

ICE. Remember your fridge is essentially a power assisted icebox/cooler. Adding ice to the freezer compartment can significantly reduce your cooling needs.

Hi,

You could look at getting a decent sized solar system. It costs a little more--but you never buy fuel again.

gunner65 wrote:
You do not have a gas capable fridge? Usually a popup will have a 3-way fridge 12V, 110V, and propane

The OP stipulated in his post that it was a 120V fridge.

ScottG wrote:
You need a quiet generator. Something like a Honda, Yamaha or even Champion, 1000 to 2000 watt inverter generator.

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You do not have a gas capable fridge? Usually a popup will have a 3-way fridge 12V, 110V, and propane

You need a quiet generator. Something like a Honda, Yamaha or even Champion, 1000 to 2000 watt inverter generator.