Re: Residential fridge power consumption?
Reply #26 –
We are sort of preppers and live in Orange County, ca. Shaky town.
The power consumption for the residential refers matches our coach IF we turn on the dometic 7832's compressor AND the dometic 100 pound chest freezer underneath our coach.
Almost every system in a 97 unicoach has a backup. Some have multiple backups.
Having the option on refer power with or without the compressor and with or without the chest refer/ freezer is something we would hate to find out in a natural disaster that we needed. Rare use. Rare idea.
Coach is walking distance from us. Storage yard electric gate fails unlocked after long term no power to it.
Kept full and dumped always. The 270 Watts solar is basically to finish charge to float a last day then park use and enough to trigger the auto combiner to keep up BOTH battery banks without intervention.
Plus we have a non in a box generator. Not much noise inside but external noise is high and we dry camp in the desert where we have 5 empty acres. No noise. Totally quiet is the benefit. The gen ruins that. Anywhere.
Everything is a trade off. Used to rv in an old marathon prevost and its mid mounted 20k thick casting Martin generator on air feet behind a thick sonus foam insulated door was almost inaudible in a normal noise area. That could run more.
Heck the aqua hot is a bit noisy when it pump and/or blower is on.
We use a group of battery internal air circulation fans on the propane refer and that helps greatly the temps. Plus using the chest refer outside for bulk items.
Whole coach works well as Foretravel designed it.
Topic: Residential fridge power consumption?