Pre cooling residential fridge on batteries

[Wowens79]

Last week I sold my popup of 9 years, and bought a HG 29BH. It has a residential fridge, and 2 group 24 batteries. I have to use a storage facility with no power to store the camper.

If I swing by the camper around lunch and flip on the fridge, will it run down the batteries by here end of the day?

[Gohawks]

Short answer is unlikely as long as batteries are in good condition.
I've left mine overnight and it didn't take battery power down below 50%
Depends how hot it is outside and what you're putting there.

[timfromma]

Put a bag of ice in there. It will help cool it down and won't make your fridge work as hard. Put the ice in a garbage bag first so you won't have a mess as the ice melts.


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[Buck1032]

As timfromma posted, I precool the fridge and freezer before I turn mine on. The night before I want to turn it on, I put in a lot of the frozen blue ice packs and frozen water jugs. The next morning I turn it on.

[BBQGUY]

Originally Posted by Buck1032

As timfromma posted, I precool the fridge and freezer before I turn mine on. The night before I want to turn it on, I put in a lot of the frozen blue ice packs and frozen water jugs. The next morning I turn it on.

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[btritschler1437]

We have found with the residential fridge we did not have to precool. We load it up an hour before we pull out, turn on the inverter and off we go. After a two hour drive to Disney temp is 34 and freezer almost zero. Size of fridge is 20 cu. ft.

[spock123]

My residential refrigerator with four cheap six volt batteries will keep mine cold for three days


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[dalford]

Originally Posted by btritschler1437

We have found with the residential fridge we did not have to precool. We load it up an hour before we pull out, turn on the inverter and off we go. After a two hour drive to Disney temp is 34 and freezer almost zero. Size of fridge is 20 cu. ft.

X2, I live maybe 45 minutes to home from my storage. I turn it on when I hook it up and it is almost completely cold when I get home. It is not like a gas refrigerator at all...

[Wowens79]

Thanks for the info. As quick as is should cool, if I flip on the inverter when I get to storage, by the time I hook up and drive home, and start loading, if I do the food last it should be cold.

Thanks for the info, I can't wait to try it out this weekend.

After being in a pop up for 9 years, we are thrilled to have a freezer and an oven. The wife and kids have bought ice cream and frozen pizza, I've requested brownies.