Furrion 12V Fridge on Battery Power

[Mikec557]

Originally Posted by KnP

Those things are pricey !!

They are. Here's one for "only" $500.

But keep in mind, two golf cart, CG2, 6v batteries will cost about $200 and give you about 115 usable Amps of its 230Ah. And then you have to keep up on the water levels, and make sure you don't shorten their life by not taking care of them.

The lithium is maintenance free, and you don't/can't shorten their life by running them down.

And if you sell your RV, take them out, drop in a new lead acid battery and put it/them in your next RV.

By the way, if it's so cold lithium won't charge unless you heat the battery, you're camping in the wrong place. Pull up stakes and move on... LOL

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B084D...36KWp13NParams

[chriscowles]

Originally Posted by Mikec557

... And if you sell your RV, take them out, drop in a new used lead acid battery and put it/them in your next RV. ...

Fixed that for you.

[Stevemal]

My In-Furrion would kill 2 G2 batts overnite. It ran for 45 minutes to an hour and off for 15-20 minutes, repeat. FR replaced it with a GE, we'll see how that works as it's made for in a house and has no latches or shelf retainer. Hoping for good luck this time!

[doanshop]

Originally Posted by KnP

Those things are pricey !!

So is a wife but you have one of them LOL

[doanshop]

Originally Posted by Mikec557

They are. Here's one for "only" $500.

But keep in mind, two golf cart, CG2, 6v batteries will cost about $200 and give you about 115 usable Amps of its 230Ah. And then you have to keep up on the water levels, and make sure you don't shorten their life by not taking care of them.

The lithium is maintenance free, and you don't/can't shorten their life by running them down.

And if you sell your RV, take them out, drop in a new lead acid battery and put it/them in your next RV.

By the way, if it's so cold lithium won't charge unless you heat the battery, you're camping in the wrong place. Pull up stakes and move on... LOL

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B084D...36KWp13NParams

Plus the weight of the lead batteries .

[D.B. Doud]

The first one we had on our lot, we ran the refrigerator for two days on the battery. We had 50 watt solar panel on the roof and I was able to run the refrigerator for two days and only dropped one volt off the battery. Not sure what the amperage draw was. I shut it off after two days because I was going to be away from the lot the next day an didn't want to run the battery too low.

[faithie999]

here is a link to a "state of charge" chart showing %charge vs voltage.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/21/2a...7f76aa6068.jpg



a "fully charged" lead/acid battery will measure 12.6 volts. best practice is to not discharge a lead/acid battery to less than 50% capacity, which is 12.06 volts. so if in your experiment you started with a fully charged battery at 12.6 volts and you dropped "one volt" to 11.6 volts, then you actually depleted the battery to about 20% (11.58 volts).