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Podmods, Maintenance, Tips and Tricks : Refrigerator on battery and propane

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Author: WillThrill
Subject: Refrigerator on battery and propane
Posted: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:46pm

Originally posted by alan7170

Originally posted by Tars Tarkas

Unless you have shore power, run the fridge on propane. The propane is what will keep it cold. The fridge has LED indicator lights and a contol board that use battery power even when the fridge is on propane but the battery usage is minute and relatively inconsequential.

For dry camping your single 12v battery will last maybe 4 days before needing recharging. If you're going to be out that long you need some kind of plan to recbarge.

TT
We have a 177 and I can easily go more than a week dry camping in summer with no recharge...fridge on propane, LED lights, the water pump is infrequent...there is really not much to drain the battery...

Alan

The only stock item I've found that will really drain the battery is the furnace.  I would estimate that when we were running the furnace with outside temps down to the 40s and keeping it about 70 inside the Pod, the furnace would consume about 20 amp hours in a 10 hour night.  The furnace will also drain your propane rather quickly as well.

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