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Originally Posted by TurnerFam

when not on generator or shore power, sure, your fridge will work just fine off the Inverter, which is exactly what the inverter is designed for - to use the battery power when you have no external incoming power.

The inverter simply provides regular 120v power to some/all outlets within your coach, nothing that doesn't 'plug in' to an outlet receives power from the inverter, those other items like air conditioners and electric water heater get their power only when you have generator or shore power.

While driving, the vehicle's Alternator provides some charging to the batteries...
When parked, the generator or shore power provides charging to the batteries...
otherwise, the Inverter does it's job and sends battery power to your 120v outlets, for the fridge and anything else that the Inverter is wired to power. Some coaches have only the fridge on the inverter, some have additional outlets, and some have ALL outlets, like ours.

You bring up a very good point: Why don't the RV manuals for each particular RV setup, tell you if the fridge is powered by the inverter circuit or where to install an added inverter (like I did) so that it can be used to power the refrigerator circuit. I added a true sine wave inverter to my Vegas 25.2 so that I could watch TV without shore power and have a couple of outlets available for misc needs.