For us, at the lake we are parked at, we have no power, only generators. Solor has been the best thing yet and having that little fridge as extra storage has been somehting I have wanted to do for years! With the panel, plus 2 extra batteries, transfer switch and supplies cost me about $800cnd. Already had the inverter and such. To put a true 12 volt truck fridge in would have been 2 times the amount as the fridges are close to $1200cnd and I still would have had to get the batteries and solar.
The added bonus when we travel we pack lunch and drinks in the side fridge and quickly grab and go at stops.
To answer the question above, it is one of the PD bar fridges that came with the trailer, its a compressor driven 120V. As for draw I used the yearly usage of 230kW and convered to a daily rate, 630watt draw added 20% to that for wiring and invertor conversion ineff. puts it at 756watts/day. 300 watts of solar at 80% eff. x avergae peak time of 5 hrs/day gives about 1200watts available daily.
From the limited run time I have seen, the draw appear to be less than the 756/day, but as ambient temp goes up the so will the draw but it should be countered by the additional sunshine.
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