I wish I had asked this in the first post.How are you all securing the door underway?
I wish I had asked this in the first post.How are you all securing the door underway?Cliff
1.8 or 1.9 amps current draw is pretty high compared some of the frigs now. My Haier claims 1.2 amps. There are lots of newer frigs that are 1.5 amps or under.Brian Elfert
Quote from: belfert on May 12, 2006, 02:00:20 PM1.8 or 1.9 amps current draw is pretty high compared some of the frigs now. My Haier claims 1.2 amps. There are lots of newer frigs that are 1.5 amps or under.Brian ElfertYour right Brian, I definetely wouldn't say it's the best fridge out there. however for me it falls in the "already there and works for now" catagory. Its somewhere around 9/10 cu, ft and manual defrost. When it stops, I'll rethink/repost(maybe search the archives).I also for got to mention the search mode on the trace inverter. If I leave the bus sitting i can put it the inverter in search mode and it won't waste energy inverting until there is a load like when the fridge cycles. I have to uplug the radio or any thing with a clock/memory because the phantom loads play with the search mode. The inverter is only around 15% effecient way down in the low amps meaning it would take almost another 1.9 amps (round to 4 total) to run the fridge when it cycles. Keep some mass in the freezer and it will help cycle less too. We half-fill the water bottles and have them ready to go and a ice bucket helps.It does keep the beer cold but I prefer it in the cooler in the living room (outside) All the talk about cold beer is distracting me I had better go check the cooler to see if there is any left from when we were having one with Dallas last week.
I think I might replace the straps with those type and put them on gumpy's way. ( Then I wont have strap envy LOL )
It sounds like I'm the odd ball with my set up (what's new?). I have a Norcold 6.3 marine compressor type reefer that automatically switches from 12v to 120v. On 12v it pulls 5.5 amps. That works out to be .55 amps at 120v. I bought it as a return for about $650. To supplement it I also bought the Norcold 100# chest reefer/freezer. This can be adjusted to be either all reefer or all freezer. On this last 17 day trip, this worked out