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Originally Posted by Tytlfamily
Well i am out now in the coach, drove 4 hours with refrig and interior lights on.. The house batteries on the monitor panel always showed completely charged.. The refrig definitely takes a long time to cool down on only 12v though.
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One of the surprises when we went from boats to RVs is the refrigerator. In our boat, we did not have any LP on board at all. We had an Alcohol/Electric stove, microwave, heat pump air conditioners, and 120VAC/12VDC refrigerator. Generally, the less explosive gas on a boat the better (sailboats though commonly use LP).
For the 'fridge, yea... it is marginal running on just 12VDC. When running on battery, it is better for maintaining already cold temps rather than initial cooling.
I don't know if you do this, but we used to do the initial cool down on 120VAC before leaving the dock on a trip, and used 12V just to keep things cold between ports.
That seemed to work pretty well.
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