Truck inverter to power camper fridge
Running fridge on AC from trucks inverter... Not a how-to, certainly not a recommendation- cut every corner I could with a ton of round to-its. Just what I concluded and installed...may or may not ...
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I'm doing something similar, but a different approach. I have a Magnum Technologies 3kw Inverter/Charger permanently hardwired into the TC. It has a built in transfer switch and is intended to cut the shore power cord and run the whole TC when activated.
I turn on the inverter, fridge kicks over to 110v.
I then ran a set 4ga cables from the truck batts to the camper batts, through 100amp breakers at each end.
When I get where I'm going to park, I trip one of the breakers to disconnect the truck batts from the TC.
I also have 800watts of solar on the roof, so on a sunny day, I run the fridge off electric also. On a sunny day, I can peak-out my solar controller at 60 amps charge. Fridge heater is a 400watt element, that comes on and off on a as-needed duty-cycle so keeping up on solar is no problem.
I turn on the inverter, fridge kicks over to 110v.
I then ran a set 4ga cables from the truck batts to the camper batts, through 100amp breakers at each end.
When I get where I'm going to park, I trip one of the breakers to disconnect the truck batts from the TC.
I also have 800watts of solar on the roof, so on a sunny day, I run the fridge off electric also. On a sunny day, I can peak-out my solar controller at 60 amps charge. Fridge heater is a 400watt element, that comes on and off on a as-needed duty-cycle so keeping up on solar is no problem.
